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Title: [View of bay from hills above San Francisco, California]
Creator: Ferran, Augusto (1813-1879), Spanish, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
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: Sunrise from hilltop near Pacific Heights. Broad view of San Francisco Bay with ships in harbor and Yerba Buena Island in distance. Male figure (Mexican?) in foreground near campsite with tents, horses, and livestock; other figures on hillside.
Printed title and date (LL): Vista de San Francisco, 1850. Inscriptions in Spanish.
Type: image
Format: Painting on canvas: oil 30.5 x 60.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2q2nb4zd
BANC PIC 1963.002:1357--FR
Subject: California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

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