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Title: [Presidio of Monterey, California]
Creator: Beechey, Richard Brydges (1808-1895), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1826-1827]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Looking across estuary towards Presidio building compound with Spanish flag flying. H.M.S. Blossom (ship) in far right background. Figures, cows, a horse, and other animals along waters edge in fore and middleground.
Handwritten title:(LC): Presidio of Monterrey [sic]. Signature (LL): Drawn by Rich[ar]d Beechey Mid[shipma]n. Handwritten (LR): H.M.S. Blossom. Date from label on verso.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor and pencil 27.8 x 44 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf267nb504
BANC PIC 1963.002:1307--FR
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Military facilities
Monterey Bay Region (Calif.)
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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