H26.2300D

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. Large tree. Front bottom right corner handwritten in pencil "Oakland 9 Mai 1877" signed "F. Richardt." Verso: "Waltz" and "Driven (?) from home" at proper right, lower edge. "Dressler" at bottom right corner.