Administered by City and County of San Francisco Public Monuments 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240 San Francisco California 94102
Located Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco M. H. de Young Memorial Museum Golden Gate Park Northwest Corner San Francisco California 94118
Date:
Ca. 1905. Dedicated Oct. 12, 1907
Notes:
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CA2064, 1989.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1992.
Monumental News, Feb. 1908, pg. 115.
Summary:
A sundial supported by a bronze sea turtle with a tilted half sphere on the turtle's back. The flat side of the half-sphere is the face of the sundial. At the top of the sundial are three interlaced bronze medallion bas-relief bust-length portraits of navigators Fortuno Ximenes, Juan de Cabrillo, and Sir Francis Drake. On the sphere side of the sundial are the continents of North and South America in bas-relief. The sculpture rests atop a granite Roman column with a fluted lower section. The pedestal is placed atop a wide three-tiered square base.
Topic:
History--United States--Discovery of U.S Search this
