Drawings by Edward Vischer of four California missions [drawings, circa 1870]

Item Overview

Title

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.

Creator

Vischer, Edward

Photographer

Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946

Date Created

[circa 1898-1934]

Date

1898/1934

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Notes

Description

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).

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Dimensions

6.75 x 5 inches

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

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.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Missions--California--Sonoma
Missions--California--Lompoc
Arts
Religion
Culture
Missions--California--Santa Cruz
Missions--California--San Rafael