BIB_ID
286251
Accession number
MA 653.2
Creator
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
Display Date
ca. 1875.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection that includes Bryant's autograph manuscript of his introduction for a volume of etchings of Old New York by Eliza Greatorex and five related prints: four by Greatorex and a portrait of Bryant signed by Hollyer. Items in the collection are described in 6 individual records (MA 653.1-6).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G. D. Hellman in December 1910 or January 1911.
Summary
Introducing Eliza Greatorex's etchings in her Old New York, noting that even "while this work is going through the press [in 1875], the original [buildings] from which the drawings have been made, are disappearing."
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