San Francisco Bay Landscape with Sailing Ships 1846 to 1847
by Peter Ogden
Title
San Francisco Bay Landscape with Sailing Ships 1846 to 1847
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Painting - Chromolithograph
Description
This is a copy of an 1846-1847 chromolithograph historic antique landscape illustration view of San Francisco, California and the San Francisco Bay printed by Bosqui Engraving and Print Company. This nautical landscape depicts early rural downtown San Francisco and several large sailing ships floating in the San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California. It is surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area (often simply "the Bay Area"), and is dominated by the large cities of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland.
San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California. Water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and from the Sierra Nevada mountains, flow into Suisun Bay, which then travels through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay. It then connects to the Pacific Ocean via the Golden Gate strait. However, this entire group of interconnected bays is often called the San Francisco Bay. The bay was designated a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on February 2, 2012.
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January 16th, 2020
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