Pen-&-Ink drawing with watercolor & goauche. Titled in ink in lower margin. 21.5x45 cm (8½x17¾") on sheet 30.7x50.5 cm (12x19¾"). Rare original color drawing of the fortified island and sometime federal prison in San Francisco Bay, in somewhat primitive style. Show are the various buildings, a fort, cannon emplacements, a pier, and a lighthouse, the latter being the first operational lighthouse on the west coast of the United States. During the Civil War, Fort Alcatraz was used to imprison Confederate sympathizers and privateers on the west coast, but its guns were never fired at an enemy. it was later used as a military prison, and other confinement purposes, before being acquired by the U.S. Department of Justice and made a federal prison in 1934, in which capacity it famously served until its closure in 1963.
Pen-&-Ink drawing with watercolor & goauche. Titled in ink in lower margin. 21.5x45 cm (8½x17¾") on sheet 30.7x50.5 cm (12x19¾"). Rare original color drawing of the fortified island and sometime federal prison in San Francisco Bay, in somewhat primitive style. Show are the various buildings, a fort, cannon emplacements, a pier, and a lighthouse, the latter being the first operational lighthouse on the west coast of the United States. During the Civil War, Fort Alcatraz was used to imprison Confederate sympathizers and privateers on the west coast, but its guns were never fired at an enemy. it was later used as a military prison, and other confinement purposes, before being acquired by the U.S. Department of Justice and made a federal prison in 1934, in which capacity it famously served until its closure in 1963.
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