Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Delatre, A. (active ca. 1856), French, printer
Creator Name:
Meryon, Charles (active ca. 1856), French, engraver
Creator Role:
engraver
Creator Role:
printer
Title:
San Francisco [California] MDCCCLV [1855]
Date:
1856
Materials:
print on paper: etching
Dimensions:
24 x 101 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0585--FR
Subject:
- California, Northern
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Settlements
- Cityscapes
- Engravings
- Portraits
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Panoramic view of city looking from Nob Hill; houses and buildings in middleground with sailing ships on San Francisco Bay; Yerba Buena Island, Alcatraz, and Telegraph Hill in distance. Two allegorical figures flank central panel bearing title; initials JBB (J.B. Bayerque) and AP (Alfred Pinoche), two San Francisco bankers, appear next to two portrait medallions.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): JBB; (LR): AP; (LL): C. Meryon, del. sculp. Paris 1856; (LR): A. Delatre imp. Rue Fg. Poissonnière 149. Inscriptions in French.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf3g50099 p

San Francisco [California] MDCCCLV [1855]