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Title: [View of harbor at 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: San Francisco harbor with shipbuilders and ships, including sidewheel steamship, on shore. Sailing ships moored in bay; houses and Yerba Buena Island in distance; rocks of Rincon Point in right foreground.
Printed title and date (LL): Vista de Sn. Francisco 1850. Handwritten (on verso of frame): This preserved by previous framer to show pen written name "Pinquet" or "Pingret." Possible painter rather than Ferran? (signed) Oakland Art Museum, Paul Mills 01/10/57 (Tab apparently brushed off in 1957 installation). Inscriptions in Spanish.
Type: image
Format: Painting on canvas: oil 30.5 x 60.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf309nb57r
BANC PIC 1963.002:1356--FR
Subject: Bays
California, Northern
Harbors
San Francisco (Calif.)
Vessels
Waterfronts

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