Oil on canvas. 10½x16½". Canvas laid down on wood backing, with a deep-set Victorian gilt frame (15x21" overall).

Signed in bottom right “Phillips, [18]97.” The self made millionaire and later mayor of San Francisco Adolph Sutro spent $50,000 in 1896 to rebuild the Cliff House in grandiose style. This second and most elaborate Cliff House would survive the 1906 Earthquake only to succumb to fire one year later.