| Exhibited: | Mechanics' Institute Fifteenth Industrial Exhibition, 1880, #127, page 52; San Francisco Art Association Spring Exhibition, #59, May 1880. |
| Citations: | The Illustrated Wasp, 4 September 1880; California Landscape Painting, 1860-1885 |
| Description: | "...a curious piece of realistic coloring, and reminds one of the old school of Italian landscape painting." (from the report of the Mechanics Institute exhibition in the The Illustrated Wasp.) |
| Note: | The article in The Illustrated Wasp uses the alternate spelling Maaztlan for the title. Since the painting has not been located it is not known which spelling is correctly associated with this painting. It is also not known whether this is a painting of the port city of Mazatlan, on the west coast of Mexico, or of the German four-masted ship Mazatlan, a popular subject for artists in the late nineteenth century. (The use of the word "landscape" in the The Illustrated Wasp report suggests that it is not a marine painting, but that word also suggests that it is not a city view.) The existence of this title has caused speculation and, more recently, a myth concerning Schafer's travels. See Legends and myths about Schafer for details. |
| Identification: | Based on the title and nearness of the exhibitions in time, the paintings at the two exhibitions are assumed to be one and the same. |
| Other title(s): | Maaztlan (Wasp article) |
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Mazatlan