Late 20th Century Illustration of San Francisco’s Lombard Street by Martin Tang

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Early 1980s lithograph by Martin Tang. Finely detailed rendering of one of the most famous streets in the world, Lombard … Read more Early 1980s lithograph by Martin Tang. Finely detailed rendering of one of the most famous streets in the world, Lombard Street. Framed and matted nicely under glass. Signature is in space at bottom of stairs.

Martin Tang is a San Francisco artist who specializes in watercolor and line drawings of the city by the bay.

Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. Stretching from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill), most of the street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year See less