Drawing by Edward Vischer of four California missions [drawings, circa 1870] 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
Creator
Vischer, Edward
Contributor
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository) Pierce, C. C. --(Charles C.), --1861-1946 (collector) Pierce, C. C. --(Charles C.), --1861-1946 (photographer) Mission La Purísima Concepción (Calif.) (subject) Santa Cruz Mission (Santa Cruz, Calif.) (subject) Mission San Francisco Solano (Sonoma, Calif.) (subject) Mission San Rafael Arcangel (San Rafael, Calif.) (subject) Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, -- 1808-1890 (subject)
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, a German-born painter and photographer, 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). Drawings by Edward Vischer of four California missions, and a small oval portrait of the General inset in the caption, circa 1870. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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