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Title
[View of Monterey Presidio, California]
Creator
Cardero, Jose (1768-after 1800), Spanish, artist
Date Created and/or Issued
[1791-1792]
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
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Description
Presidio compound with stockade, carts, and figures (Indians?), some semi-nude, tilling fields and socializing; three sailing ships in harbor beyond.
Handwritten title (LC): Vista del Presidio de Monte Rey. Signature (LR): Josef Cardero p.o. Printed (UR): 38. Inscriptions in Spanish.
Type
image
Format
Drawing on paper: ink, wash, and pencil 30 x 48.7 cm., visible image
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf387008q3
BANC PIC 1963.002:1310--FR
Subject
Agriculture
Buildings
California, Northern
Expeditions & surveys
Military facilities
Monterey Bay Region (Calif.)
Voyages to the Pacific

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