Christmas Greetings from Miriam and Reg (Mission San Juan Capistrano)

 

Reginald Wilmer Vaughan

  1869 - 1958 (biography)

c. 1930  

drypoint 

5 x 6" platemark 

unsigned 

not stated 

title incised in composition 

 

ivory wove 

published 

artist 

6942 

$90.00 

An image of the Great Stone Church ruins in the Spanish mission San Juan Capistrano, in Orange County, California. The Greco-Roman style chapel was built out of stone in 1797, the only chapel building of the time not to be made of adobe. Various earthquakes in the early 1800s led to its destruction and finally the building of new structures that would envelope the stone chapel, using adobe and other sturdy materials already known to withstand earthquakes. Reginald Wilmer Vaughan and