Subject: San Fernando, California
Period: 1856 (published)
Publication: Survey for Routes for a Pacific Railroad Reports
Color: Hand Color
Size:
9 x 5.8 inches
22.9 x 14.7 cm
This tinted lithograph is the first depiction of the San Fernando Valley (The Valley), the now urban northwest area of Los Angeles. The scene shows the walled mission in left center, a rider on a horse, some cattle, and a native harvesting prickly pear fruit in the foreground. The San Gabriel Mountains are shown in the background.
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Condition: A
A lovely impression that is fine less one small spot in sky at right and another in border at left.