Stunning Winter Scene on Broadway, New York - Hand-Colored Aquatint from 1857

Name: Stunning Winter Scene on Broadway, New York - Hand-Colored Aquatint from 1857
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BGCP-016
Price: 3805 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1857
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 67.5 × 90 cm (26.6 × 35.4 in)
Condition: Good. Repaired: Three archival repairs: 1" tear into left image, a slight tear at top left, and one in the right blank margin. Attractive color on heavy paper with light soiling, minor foxing, and small abrasions, including one on fireman's face. Crease in top left.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: New York
Reference: BGCP-016

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

Broadway in winter, an original hand-colored aquatint with engraving by Paul Girardet after the painting by Hippolyte Victor Valentin Sebron, published by Michael Knoedler of New York with Goupil & Cie, 1857. The plate title "New-York" is engraved beneath the image.

The view looks down the snowy length of Broadway between Spring and Prince Streets. Brick and brownstone buildings with flags flying line both sides of the street. At the center a crowded omnibus drawn by horses is followed by a sleigh at the right, a fire truck and its crew are caught in the traffic at the left, and pedestrians in winter dress cross the street. The Prescott House, opened in 1852, stands at the corner of Spring Street. Next to it is a building with the name Chinese Buildings, which later became Buckley's Minstrel Hall. The color is applied by hand to the figures, flags and buildings against the snow.

Sebron (1801 to 1879), a French painter and pupil of Daguerre, spent six years in America, from 1849 to 1855, and this view of Broadway is his best-known work.

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