1876 · Views & Engravings
Industrial and Daily Life in Pittsburg - Published in The Graphic, 1876.
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- Date
- 1876
- Kind
- Views & Engravings
- Size
- 40.5 × 29.5 cm (15.9 × 11.6 in)
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- Pennsylvania
- Reference
- BG-13839-4
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.
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About this piece
Pittsburgh's rivers and markets in two views, an original wood engraving with hand color from The Graphic, a London illustrated weekly, December 2, 1876. The page is headed "The Graphic" and the series title "Our Artist in the United States, VIII. Pittsburg" runs above the upper image, with the page number at the right.
The upper view, "Ohio and Monongahela steamboats, Pittsburg", shows a row of sternwheelers and river steamers moored along the landing, their tall paired smokestacks pouring black smoke into the sky. Dockhands handle barrels and goods on the paved levee in the foreground, a horse and cart wait at the right, and a hillside rises behind. Below, "A fruit market at Pittsburg" is a busy street scene with awnings, baskets and stalls piled with produce, townspeople of all ages in the crowd, a small dog in the foreground, and tall brick commercial buildings with shop signs, among them a "Boots & Shoes" store, lining the street behind.
The Graphic's "Our Artist in the United States" series sent a British artist through American cities in 1876, the centennial year, and the Pittsburgh page set the city's river trade and smoke beside its everyday commerce.
