Title:
[Presidio of San Francisco, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist (artist)
Date:
[1816]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1314--FR
Format:
painting on paper: watercolor and pencil
26.7 x 45.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Presidio buildings in left middleground surrounded by slopping landscape, with San Francisco Bay at right. Horsemen and grazing
animals on slopes in foreground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC, on mount): Presidio de St. Francisco. Date based on Otto von Kotzebue Expedition visit to California
in 1816. Inscriptions in Spanish.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Expeditions & surveys;
Military facilities;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Paintings;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors