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Title: [Plaza 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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Large yard surrounded by one-story buildings with columns; larger, thatched roof building in center with large cross in front (church?). Three horses or mules and man on horse carrying shield and lance in background. Sketch of seated man in lower left.
Handwritten title (LC): Plaza del Precidio de Monte-Rey [sic]. Signature (according to Inventory Sheets): [Cardero, Jose] (not confirmed during survey). Printed (UR): 25. Inscriptions in Spanish.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil and ink 25 x 43.7 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7m3nb7dg
BANC PIC 1963.002:1308--FR
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Expeditions & surveys
Military facilities
Monterey Bay Region (Calif.)
Voyages to the Pacific

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