Image / [Peasant woman of Loire and lighthouse at Cordouan, France]

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Title: [Peasant woman of Loire and lighthouse at Cordouan, France]
Creator: Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1845-1851]
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: Peasant woman (servant?) with tall headdress of starched lace. Tower is actually lighthouse with Classical base, pointed conical upper section and light at top; French flag flying.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LL under image): France . Loire - inférieure; (LR under image): France. Tour de Cordouan. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil and white chalk 13.8 x 21.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6q2nb7kd
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:41--ALB
Subject: Buildings
Clothing & dress
France
Women

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