Title:
[View of Golden Gate, San Francisco, California]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[ca. 1870?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1516--xF591H72M48
Format:
painting on paper (fore-edge of book): watercolor and gold leaf
3.8 x 23.4 cm., closed fore-edge
Content/Description:
Fore-edge painting of city looking towards Golden Gate over Fort Mason and Presidio areas. Multi-story buildings in foreground;
three onlookers to right; sailing ships on San Francisco Bay in middleground; low hills in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Painted on gilded edge of: The poetical works of John Milton, James Tomson and Edward Young, ed. by Rev. H.F. Cary, A.M. (London:
William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, 1841).
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Landscapes;
Watercolors