Title:
[View of Monterey Presidio, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Cardero, Jose (1768-after 1800), Spanish, artist (artist)
Date:
[1791-1792]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1310--FR
Format:
drawing on paper: ink, wash, and pencil
30 x 48.7 cm., visible image
Content/Description:
Presidio compound with stockade, carts, and figures (Indians?), some semi-nude, tilling fields and socializing; three sailing
ships in harbor beyond.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC): Vista del Presidio de Monte Rey. Signature (LR): Josef Cardero p.o. Printed (UR): 38. Inscriptions
in Spanish.
Subjects:
Agriculture;
Buildings;
California, Northern;
Expeditions & surveys;
Military facilities;
Monterey Bay Region (Calif.);
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Landscapes;
Travel sketches