Drawings by Edward Vischer of four California missions [drawings, circa 1870]
Alternative Title
Departed Mission Relics, rescued from oblivion by the strong early-life impressions, astounding memory, descriptive power and untiring obligingness of California's historian General Mar[iano] Guad[alupe] Vallejo. / Santa Cruz 1828, La Purisima in 1824, San Rafael, 1831, San Francisco Solano 1832 / Missions of Santa Cruz, Purissima, San Rafael and San Francisco Solano 1817/30 / Presumable appearance, by elevations from the respective Ground-plans, a most welcome contribution to complete this antiquarian Collection, a lasting memento from an interesting sojourn at Lachryma Montis, the General's congenial, truly arcadian home, October 10 to 15th of 1878.
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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Drawings by Edward Vischer of four California missions, and a small oval portrait of the General inset in the caption, circa 1870. The drawings were re-purposed for Vallejo's project; they are placed within windows cut out of the inscribed upper sheet of paper. Edward Vischer (1809–1878), a German-born painter and photographer, migrated to Mexico at the age of 19. He is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860's and 1870's, especially of missions, trees, mountains and rural scenes. He published his work in Pictorial of California (1870), and two albums of drawings of California missions (1872 and 1878).
Type
image
Identifier
uclamss_1756_xxxx_b0105 ark:/21198/zz002b1b32
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Missions--California--Sonoma Missions--California--Lompoc Arts Religion Culture Missions--California--Santa Cruz Missions--California--San Rafael Santa Cruz Mission (Santa Cruz, Calif.) Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890 Mission San Francisco Solano (Sonoma, Calif.) Mission San Rafael Arcangel (San Rafael, Calif.) Mission La Purísima Concepción (Calif.)
Source
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
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