File:Miners in the Sierras.jpg

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Charles Christian Nahl: Miners in the Sierras  wikidata:Q20495588 reasonator:Q20495588
Artist
Charles Christian Nahl  (1818–1878)  wikidata:Q830832
 
Charles Christian Nahl
Alternative names
Charles Christian Heinrich Nahl, Charles Nahl,
Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl, Charles C. Nahl
Description German painter, lithographer and engraver
Date of birth/death 18 October 1818 Edit this at Wikidata 1 March 1878 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kassel Edit this at Wikidata San Francisco Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q830832
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Frederick August Wenderoth  (1819–1884)  wikidata:Q1452782
 
Frederick August Wenderoth
Alternative names
August Wenderoth
Description German lithographer and painter
Date of birth/death 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kassel, Germany Philadelphia Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Kassel (Germany), Paris, Algeria, Sacramento, San Francisco, St. Louis, Charleston (South Carolina), Philadelphia.
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artist QS:P170,Q1452782
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Title
Miners in the Sierras
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1851 and 1852
date QS:P571,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1852-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 137.7 cm (54.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 170.1 cm (67 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+137.795U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+170.18U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1192305
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Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
English: Charles Christian Nahl and August Wenderoth were refugees of the troubles in Germany of 1848. Like thousands before them they came to California to seek fortune. They established themselves as entrepreneurs, setting up a studio and painting the first wave of miners.
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Source/Photographer Own photograph of painting in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, photograph Ad Meskens
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