Erie Canal Lockport New York – Antique Canal Engineering Steel Engraving, 1854

Name: Erie Canal Lockport New York – Antique Canal Engineering Steel Engraving, 1854
Brand: Meyer
SKU: BG-14038-110
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1854
Maker: Meyer
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 14.4 × 23.7 cm (5.7 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age with light age toning and occasional minor spotting mostly confined to the margins. Plate mark visible. Paper remains stable and well preserved.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: New York
Reference: BG-14038-110

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

The flight of locks on the Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, an original steel engraving from Meyers Universum, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Germany in the 1850s. The plate is printed in black and lettered below the image "Erie-Canal, Lockport (Verein. Staaten v. N. Am.)."

The view looks down the canal through a stone-walled lock, with its timber gates and walkway in the middle ground and the channel winding away between wooded banks to a high trestle bridge in the distance. At the left a large classical building with balconies and a rooftop terrace carries a sign for the "Union Hotel," and figures stand along the lock walls, with a barrel and crates on the towpath, a boatman at the gate and a group of seated travelers at the lower right. Houses and a mill-like building stand along the canal.

The locks at Lockport were built to lift boats up the Niagara Escarpment, a rise of roughly 60 feet. The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, linked the Hudson River and New York City with the Great Lakes and was one of the most consequential engineering works in the United States of its day.

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