View of the Ruins after the Great Fire in New York, Dec. 16th & 17th, 1835 as seen from Exchange Place.
New York: Lewis P. Clover, 1836. Aquatint in colors, after Nicolino Calyo (1779-1884), with extensive additional hand-coloring in watercolor and gouache, with the hand-scribed borderline in black ink, characteristic of early printings. Sheet size: 21 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. The ruin on the left is the Old Garden Street Church; this aquatint "is the only contemporary representation that we have of this church, as rebuilt in 1807" (Stokes, Iconography…, page 618). Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island, page 617, illustrated plate 114b; NY Public Library, The Eno Collection of New York City Views , page 27; Collection of Percy R. Pyne II: a Catalogue of Engraved Views plans &c of New York City, number 165 (describes this state as from the "excessively scarce first issue"); Stauffer 141; Déak, William James Bennett number 32.
View of the Ruins after the Great Fire in New York, Dec. 16th & 17th, 1835 as seen from Exchange Place.
New York: Lewis P. Clover, 1836. Aquatint in colors, after Nicolino Calyo (1779-1884), with extensive additional hand-coloring in watercolor and gouache, with the hand-scribed borderline in black ink, characteristic of early printings. Sheet size: 21 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. The ruin on the left is the Old Garden Street Church; this aquatint "is the only contemporary representation that we have of this church, as rebuilt in 1807" (Stokes, Iconography…, page 618). Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island, page 617, illustrated plate 114b; NY Public Library, The Eno Collection of New York City Views , page 27; Collection of Percy R. Pyne II: a Catalogue of Engraved Views plans &c of New York City, number 165 (describes this state as from the "excessively scarce first issue"); Stauffer 141; Déak, William James Bennett number 32.
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