H26.2300C

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. Two large trees in foreground, a fence is at right foreground. Front bottom right corner is handwritten in pencil: "Oakland 16 May 1877," signed "Ferd. Richardt." Verso: handwritten in black ink along center vertical fold is "Among the Roses," "piano," and "Oesten."