Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist
Creator Name:
Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist
(attributed to)
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Spanish establishment of St. Francisco in New California]
Date:
[1806]
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
22 x 27.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1021--FR
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions & surveys
- Indians of North America
- Military Facilities
- San Francisco Bay Area
(Calif.)
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Landscapes
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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Content/Description:
Notes:
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.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
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.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf5c60101 m

[Spanish establishment of St. Francisco in New California]