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One of fourteen lithographed images of typical Californians at the time of the Gold Rush, drawn by Augusto Ferran and Jose Baturone in Havana.
Augosto Ferran and Jse Baturone arrived in San Francisco in early 1849, as part of the initial rush of Gold Fever. While they failed as Gold Miners, upon their return to Havana, they published a series of lithographs under the title Album Californiano, which depcted typical miners upon their return to San Francisco from the Gold Regions. There is some speculation that it was not until Ferran and Baturone returned to Havana that they prepared the original artwork, as the characters all have decidedly Hispanic features.
The series of lithographs,issued in 3 groups with printed wrappers, is extremely rare. The set is so rare that the printed literature describing the set references only 12 lithographs, when in fact their are 14. Of the 4 sets held in institutions (California State Library, Huntington, New York Historical Society, Yale), only the Yale and Huntington sets have 14 images and the titles in English are different in each of these sets. (See, e.g. Art of The Gold Rush, Driesbach & Holland, 1997).
Ferran is also known to have painted two very famous gold rush era paintings which have been compared to the work of J.M.W. Turner.
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