Title:
The winter of 1849
Creator/Contributor:
Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist (artist)
Brandard, J., lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[1855]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1440:4--A
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color
13.5 x 18.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Humorous view of flooded street scene in San Francisco showing pedestrians trying to avoid water; woman crossing over boxes;
men crowding street. Buildings line street (sign painting, rooming, Dr. Jones, Astor House, Chinese Warehouse, etc.).
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F. Marryat, delt.; (LC, below title): M. & N. Hanhart, impt.; (LR): J. Brandard, lith. From
"Mountains and molehills, or Recollections of a burnt journal" by Frank Marryat (London, 1855).
Subjects:
Buildings;
Business enterprises;
California, Northern;
Clothing & dress;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Manners & customs;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Women
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color