A Glimpse into the Early 19th Century Urban Landscape of New York, a 1842 Print

Name: A Glimpse into the Early 19th Century Urban Landscape of New York, a 1842 Print
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13793
Price: 370 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1842
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.3 × 26.8 cm (8 × 10.6 in)
Condition: Good. Very nicely colored. Minor wear and faint waterstain in left lower corner, hardly visible and outside the image. Please study the images carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: New York
Reference: BG-13793

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

New York as seen from an elevated viewpoint in the early 1840s, an original engraving with hand color, dated 1842. The title "New York" is lettered below the image, with the imprint "London: Published by Thomas Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row" and the engraver's credit "S. Davenport Sculp." at the lower right.

A broad, unpaved street runs from the foreground toward the harbor, lined on both sides with brick houses, shopfronts and awnings. Carts and a few pedestrians move along it, and several spires rise above the roofs along its length. At the right stands a church with a columned portico and a tall spire, shaded by trees. Beyond the end of the street the water is crowded with the masts of ships, and low shores close the horizon under a wide sky of clouds, with fresh blues and soft orange tints in the hand coloring.

The sheet was made in London for an English audience, one of the small steel-engraved city views that publishers of the 1830s and 1840s issued to illustrate books on America.

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