BIB_ID
286257
Accession number
MA 653.4
Creator
Greatorex, Eliza, engraver.
Published
1874.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 194 x 121 mm
Notes
Date from a copy of the print in the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection at New York Public Library.
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).
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).
Inscriptions/Markings
"+ Lexington Ave., N.E. Cor[ner]" pencilled below print.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G. D. Hellman in December 1910 or January 1911.
Summary
Print shows a view of two homes tucked behind trees and foliage. A man stands behind a plank fence in the foreground. Eliza Greatorex, 1874 engraved in lower right corner.
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