Title:
San Francisco [California] MDCCCLV [1855]
Creator/Contributor:
Meryon, Charles (active ca. 1856), French, engraver (engraver)
Delatre, A. (active ca. 1856), French, printer (printer)
Date:
1856
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0585--FR
Format:
print on paper: etching
24 x 101 cm.
Content/Description:
Panoramic view of city looking from Nob Hill; houses and buildings in middleground with sailing ships on San Francisco Bay;
Yerba Buena Island, Alcatraz, and Telegraph Hill in distance. Two allegorical figures flank central panel bearing title; initials
JBB (J.B. Bayerque) and AP (Alfred Pinoche), two San Francisco bankers, appear next to two portrait medallions.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): JBB; (LR): AP; (LL): C. Meryon, del. sculp. Paris 1856; (LR): A. Delatre imp. Rue Fg. Poissonnière
149. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Engravings;
Portraits