H26.2300F

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. Cluster of trees in foreground. Front bottom right corner, handwritten in pencil "Oakland 8 May 1877" signed "Ferd. Richardt." Verso: handwritten in black ink "Quadrille" and "Franko American" along center vertical fold.