Catalogue of the annual exhibition [4th, 1873]
An 1873 exhibition catalogue issued by the San Francisco Art Association, printed in San Francisco for the city's art-viewing public. The single picture is a black-and-white emblem of a classically helmeted woman in profile inside a ring of leaf-like points, with the motto 'I am what is, what shall be, what hath been' beneath. A designer could take its strong figure-in-roundel composition, bold black masses against cream paper, and the radiating leaf border as a model for a seal or badge.
![Picture 1 of 1 from Catalogue of the annual exhibition [4th, 1873] (1873), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll4_57404-12-1.webp)