Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. [not numbered]
Premium. $10. [P. 130.] Statement of Mrs. W.E. Brown, of Sacramento. . . . I have spent much time last year amid our wild mountain scenery, working with colors on the spot, and feel that I have some fine studies, which for one self-taught, my friends are kind enough to say have compared very favorably with skilled professionals. And even at your last year's exhibition, hanging side by side with those of a neighboring artist, my pictures were favorably mentioned in three different criticisms. . . . Perhaps you think as on several occasions I have taken the first prize for fruit and flowers, I am encroaching on the rights of legitimate artists in presuming to compete for the highest prize. Yet to the earnest worker for and lover of art, the goal will be reached in view of all discouragements. And thus I leave my fate in your hands. [P. 167.]
California State Agricultural Society Transactions 1870. D.W. Gelwicks, State Printer. 1872.
