biography of Jose BATURONE (XIX)

Birth place: Cuba

Profession: Sketch artist

Comments: Young Cuban artist who contributed 6 sketches to Album Californiano, a set of 12 studies of California miners published at Havana c.1849-50. Baturone's collaborator was Augusto Ferran.

Sources: G&W; Vail, Gold Fever, description of the Album, with 2 repros.; Jackson, Gold Rush Album, repros, pp. 69, 136, 139-42, 144[?]