The Independent Gold Hunter On His Way To California I Neither Borrow Nor Lend

$3,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York and Hartford: Kellogg & Comstock; Buffalo, NY: Ensign & Thayer, 12 Exchange St., ca. 1849 . Hand-colored lithograph, 12.5” x 8.5” plus margins. CONDITION: Good, light wear and soiling. An iconic satire of a gold-hunter, published at the height of the California Gold Rush.This scarce print depicts a prospective gold miner as an inappropriately well-dressed man in a knee-length coat, absurdly laden with mining

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