Title:
[San Francisco harbor, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Armstrong, Thomas (1818-1861), British, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Date:
1849
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1315--FR
Format:
painting on paper: watercolor and pencil
15.6 x 22.7 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
View looking from Nob Hill area toward Yerba Buena harbor with small house in foreground and buildings clustered near shore;
numerous ships in harbor; East Bay hills in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LL): To Julia/Much love from Tom; (LR): San Francisco Harbor, April 1849. Handwritten (on support):
Gift of Mrs. Forbes/1910; (labels on verso): San Francisco 1849/American watercolor/found in attic/Marble-head Mass[achusetts].
Subjects:
Bays;
Dwellings;
Harbors;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Marines (Visual works);
Watercolors