Title:
San Francisco [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Herrmann, J. Meyer (active ca. 1854), publisher (attributed to) (publisher)
Date:
[c1854]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0543--A
Format:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
20.3 x 25.7 cm.
Content/Description:
View from Nob Hill looking toward harbor. Figures carry bundles in foreground; densely packed residences and buildings lead
down to waterfront. Numerous ships in harbor, some on fire; Yerba Buena Island in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Aus. d. Kunstanst d. Bibl. Inst. in Hildbh.; (LR): Eigenthum d. Verleger. Handwritten (LC,
on mount): Die fünf Weltteile, Hildburghausen Verlag des Bibliografischen Instituts...; (LC, on mat): c1854-0. Attribution
based on variant 1963.002:0542--A. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Bays;
California, Northern;
Harbors;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Engravings, color