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Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Title:

[Infant child of Serranus Clinton Hastings.]

Description:

Full length portrait of a baby, seated on a wooden chair, wearing a dress with gold buttons down the front, and gold jewelry (necklace). Arm of adult woman[?] on the left. Identified by collector as a daughter of S.C. Hastings who founded the Hastings Law School in San Francisco. However, it is unclear whether the child is a girl or a boy. Mackay also identifies sitter as the same daughter pictured in 1905.16242:70.

Creator/Contributor:

Vance, R. H. (Robert H.), d. 1876, photographer

Date:

[ca. 1854]

Contributing Institution:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library