H26.2300O

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. Drawing of unknown waterfront in Oakland. Buildings on stilts and smokestack to the left background. Trees at right foreground with a man, boy, and dog walking off of the bridge. Front bottom right handwritten in pencil: "Oakland 3/10 '77" and "Ferd. Richardt" signed.