H26.2300B

Pencil sketches of Oakland.--1877-1887 by Ferd. Rickardt resident of Oakland 1875-1895 (Oak trees--building--Lake Merritt etc. Artists name appears in Mallett's "Guide to Artists" as Joaquim Ferdinand Richardt and in German dictionary of Artists (in U. C. Library) Noted for drawings and landscape paintings. Pencil drawing of men and women walking down a tree-lined street, somewhere in Oakland (exact location not known). Front of piece: bottom right hand corner, handwritten is "Oakland, June 16, 1877 Ferd. Richart." Verso of piece, handwritten in pencil vertically in center "Some one kissed m____ sleep" and "Christie."