Heading: -1860
Author:
Title: Vue de San Francisco en 1860 / View of San Francisco in 1860
Place Published: Paris / San Francisco
Publisher:Henry Payot
Date Published: 1860
Description:

Colored lithograph. 40.5x46.4 cm (16x18¼") plus margins, hinged to mat.

Rare tinted lithograph of San Francisco in the latter year of the gold rush, a bird's-eye view of the city looking toward Yerba Buena Island. Printed by Gosselin in Paris, but published by San Francisco resident Henry Payot, who was born in 1838 in South Carolina of French parents. Payot was 13 when he arrived in San Francisco with the Gold Rush. He worked for lithographers Quirot & Company and later had his own litho-engraving business called Payot, Upham & Company. The imprint reads, under the left side of the image, "Published by Henry Payot, 184 Washington Street," and under the right, "Paris, Gosselin Editeur, Imp. 71, r. St. Jacques." Reps 284 notes only a copy in a Private Collection. Baird & Evans 37.

A few faint fox marks, vertical darkened streak and a small dark spot in sky, undoubtedly from a wooden backing on a previous frame; very good.