Title:
View of the town and harbour of San Francisco [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, artist (artist)
Mansfield, H. (active ca. 1849), publisher (publisher)
Date:
[ca. 1849?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0548--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
25.7 x 35.1 cm.
Content/Description:
View from south looking toward harbor and city of San Francisco; three men, two on horseback, in left foreground; sailing
ships and sidewheel steamship in harbor; buildings and houses scattered on shore and Telegraph Hill in distance. Dense vegetation
in foreground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn by Geo. H. Baker, Esq. Ar[?]; (LC, above title): Entered[?]... District of Connecticut;
(LC, below title): Published by H. Mansfield, New Haven, Conn. See also Baker's print on lettersheet:1963.002:135.
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
Harbors;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color;
Marines (Visual works)