| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | Signed l/l: "F. Schafer." in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. |
| Verso: | Titled l/c: "Evening in the / Santa Cruz Mts / California" in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. |
| Provenance: | Private collection, San Francisco; by descent in the family by 1993 to private collection, Sandpoint, Idaho. |
| Citations: | Personal communications with the owner, 2003 and 2016. |
| Note: | 1. Illegible verso marks may be an additional inscription. 2. A painting with this title was exhibited in the Mechanics' Institute Nineteenth Industrial Exhibition in San Francisco in 1884 but there is not enough information in that catalog to either include or exclude the possibility that it is the same painting. |
| Identification: | Title from verso inscription. |
| In index(es): | Title list, moonlight nocturnes and other scenes showing the moon, mountain streams through a forest, Santa Cruz mountains, California |
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