[California]: Kuchel, Charles C., and Emil Dresel:

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KUCHEL & DRESEL'S CALIFORNIA VIEWS. FORREST HILL PLACER COUNTY. 1857 [caption title]. A very rare and attractive early California view depicting gold mines in Placer County, produced by the lithographers Kuchel & Dresel in concert with iconic San Francisco printers Britton & Rey. Charles C. Kuchel and Emil Dresel were both German immigrants. After starting in Philadelphia in the late twenties, by 1853 they had partnered up in California where they printed at least fifty views of the gold regions in the short years between 1855 and 1859. Many of the views in this series were printed both with and without a number of smaller vignettes surrounding the central view; this is the version of the Forrest Hill print with a larger central image and no vignettes. Outside of their California view series, they are known for producing lithographs for Edward Vischer's series on the Mammoth Tree Grove."The outstanding work of this firm was a series entitled 'Kuchel & Dresel's California Views,' including all the important cities and mining towns, with a few of Oregon and Washington, issued during 1855, 1856, 1857, and 1858. They were sometimes published by a local merchant, often the bookseller....Unless otherwise noted, all we have listed were drawn and lithographed by Kuchel & Dresel and printed by Britton & Rey" – Peters.This view of Forrest Hill shows the mining camp, made up of less than two dozen modest buildings, dotting the low, sparsely-wooded foothills of the Sierra Nevada. A few f

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