Ink manuscript on tracing paper with some hand-coloring. 24.5x36.5 cm (9¾x14¼") plus margins, in custom modern cloth-back marbled boards folder.
Original contemporary traced copy of a diseño of a Mexican land grant in what is now the southern portion of San Francisco, with features including Camino Real, Camino del Presideo, Laguna Honda, Lomerias, etc. A copy of this diseño is reproduced in Robert Becker's Designs on the Land, and he describes it: "In 1845, José de Jesus Noé, a resident of the community around Mission San Francisco, asked for and received a grant of one square league, 'lying west and northwest of the Mission of Dolores... bordering on the Rancho of the Citizen Francisco de Haro, Robert Riddle, and José Cornelio Bernal... and bounded by the ocean on the west'... Although Noé claimed all the land between El Camino Real and the Presidio Reservation, from the above ranchos to the ocean, the final survey allotted him perhaps a third of the area. The San Miguel Rancho occupied the center of the Peninsula, its southern tip just across the San Mateo County line. Modern San Jose Avenue from Army Street south to the county line forms its southeastern boundary. The western limit is in part Junipero Serra Boulevard from its junction with Nineteenth Avenue north to Sloat Boulevard; from that point the line ran north-northeast to embrace Laguna Honda and most of the area now occupied by the Medical Center of the University of California. Although Voiget did not sign this diseño, the lettering, the compass, and the general style are sufficiently close to his to make such an ascription..." A fairly small number of tracings of the diseños were made for filing in various courts and archives.
Provenance: Alta California Books, 3/70
References: Becker, Designs on the Land, 42.