Title:
[Spanish establishment of St. Francisco in New California]
Creator/Contributor:
Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[1806]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1021--FR
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
22 x 27.7 cm.
Content/Description:
View taken from the ship "Juno." Four Indians in reed canoe in left foreground; Presidio buildings and small figures walking
on the shore in middleground; hills in distance. Possibly the earliest known view of San Francisco, Calif. and the Presidio
of San Francisco.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Ansicht des Spanischen Etablissements von St. Francisco in Neu-Californien; (LR,
in ink): Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Ref. note: Langsdorff, German ed., Vol. II, Plate 8, p.132; not in English edition.
Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Indians of North America;
Military facilities;
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.);
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings