San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt. – Vintage Wall Art
![San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt., London : M.& N. Hanhart Chromo Lith. impt., [ca. 1850?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/77/778cfe9e3425-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt.
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Drawn by S.F. Marryat and printed in London by the Hanhart firm, this chromolithograph presents San Francisco in the years around the Gold Rush, when the settlement grew from a small Mexican-era town into a busy port within a few short years. Hanhart's color lithography was prized in the mid-nineteenth century for bringing views of distant places to European audiences, so the print shows how the new American city was imagined from across the Atlantic. The Library holds two impressions, one hand-colored, which makes it possible to compare the printed color with the work of individual colorists.
| Created / published | London : M.& N. Hanhart Chromo Lith. impt., [ca. 1850?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Cityscape prints 1840-1860.Chromolithographs Color 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Title from item. Library has two impressions, one with hand-coloring. DLC |
| Subjects | San Francisco (Calif.)--1840-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217123 |
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