H26.2300L

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 in foreground, with human figures sitting underneath, also cows near fence. Lake Merritt in background. Front bottom right corner handwritten in pencil: "Oakland, 1/8/89" and singed "Ferd. Richardt" in pencil.