Lot 123
San Francisco, Cal.
Sold
$189,000
Est $150,000 - $250,000
Live Auction
PHOTOGRAPHS
ARTIST
George Robinson Fardon
Size
7 5/8 x 53 3/8 in. (19.5 x 135.6 cm)
Description

Medium
A panorama of seven salt prints from glass negatives, mounted contiguously.
Signature
Photographically printed labels, 'San Francisco, Cal., 1855' and 'G. R. Fardon, Photographer, San Francisco, Daguerreotypes [on] Paper' affixed to the mount, with penciled inscriptions in an unidentified hand on the mount edges. Accompanied by the original wood frame and glass.
Provenance
Collection of William Franklin Whittier, San Francisco, 1855 By descent to the present owner
Literature
Other examples of the panorama, as well as individual panorama images from San Francisco Album: Palmquist, Fraenkel, Kraus, et al., San Francisco Album, Photographs 1854-1856 by George Robinson Fardon, pls. 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 16; cat. nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Harris, Paper Promises: Early American Photography, pl. 79 Harris and Sandweiss, Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco 1850-1880, cat. no. 15 Sobieszek, ed., San Francisco in the 1850s; 35 Photographic Views by G. R. Fardon, pls. 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 16