HENRY NAPPENBACH Murder Alley San Francisco Old Chinatown

Sale 2403 - Lot 103

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

HENRY NAPPENBACH.
"'Murder Alley' San Francisco, Old Chinatown." Watercolor and charcoal on paper. 680x500 mm; 26 3/4x19 1/2 inches. Signed with presentation inscription in pencil lower right, titled above. Framed. Circa 1890s.

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Nappenbach immigrated from Munich to San Francisco in 1885 to work as an engraver. He painted landscape and city scenes in his spare time and became known for such work, eventually landing him a job managing the art department of the American Magazine. The inscription reads, "For Bob Aitkens, from your admiring friend and Brother Bohemian, HNAP." Better known as Robert Ingersoll Aitkens, Bob was an American sculptor responsible for the west pediment of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. and fellow member of San Francisco's private Bohemian Club.