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Description
Fore-edge painting of city looking towards Golden Gate over Fort Mason and Presidio areas. Multi-story buildings in foreground; three onlookers to right; sailing ships on San Francisco Bay in middleground; low hills in distance. Painted on gilded edge of: The poetical works of John Milton, James Tomson and Edward Young, ed. by Rev. H.F. Cary, A.M. (London: William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, 1841).
Type
image
Format
Painting on paper (fore-edge of book): watercolor and gold leaf 3.8 x 23.4 cm., closed fore-edge
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