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Title: [Presidio of San Francisco, California]
Creator: Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1816]
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: Presidio buildings in left middleground surrounded by slopping landscape, with San Francisco Bay at right. Horsemen and grazing animals on slopes in foreground.
Handwritten title (LC, on mount): Presidio de St. Francisco. Date based on Otto von Kotzebue Expedition visit to California in 1816. Inscriptions in Spanish.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor and pencil 26.7 x 45.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf329007sb
BANC PIC 1963.002:1314--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Expeditions & surveys
Military facilities
San Francisco (Calif.)
Voyages to the Pacific

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