MOONLIGHT SCENE IN MARIN COUNTY, NEAR BOLINAS ORIGINAL SKETCH, A FRIENDLY DEDICATION TO MISS McHENRY, FROM THE AUTHOR. Original drawing, circa 1860s-1870s

by Edward Vischer

$3,750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Mixed media graphite and white highlighted drawing, measuring 10.5x17.5 cm 4 x 7 inches , sight, not examined out of frame. Edward Vischer 1809-1878 , a native of Bavaria, settled in California about 1847. He established himself in San Francisco, principally as a commission merchant. Late in life he took up drawing and was soon making sketches wherever he went. According to Francis P. Farquhar, Edward Vischer & His Pictorial of California San Francisco 1932 , Vischer ... developed

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