Image / Church and convent de la Merced, Valparaiso 1849 [Chile]

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Title: Church and convent de la Merced, Valparaiso 1849 [Chile]
Creator: Gibson, G. [George?] (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), British, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
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: Church and convent façade with date (of establishment?), 1776, above door flanked by two medallions with coats of arms. One story building with shuttered windows, tile roof, and pyramidal spire above short tower of entrance. Figure of padre in black vestments on street; broad green mountains in distance.
Handwritten title (on verso). Handwritten (on verso) (modern): by G. Gibson.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor 14.5 x 19.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4q2nb695
BANC PIC 1963.002:0690--A
Subject: Chile
Churches
Dwellings
Settlements
South America

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