Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 4,370
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 6,000
(NEW YORK; and WASHINGTON, D. C. )<>
A pair of portfolios containing a total of 45 medium-format plates, comprising 42 views of New York City and New York State and 3 views of Washington, D.C., with scenes of Central Park's vistas, landscapes, and monuments; architectural views of the Park Avenue Hotel, the Dakota, the Vanderbilt Mansion, the Academy of Design, Madison and Fifth Avenue homes; Hudson River views at the Palisades and Cold Spring; Watkins Glen and its picturesque waterfalls and gorges; the rapids in Niagara; elaborate Victorian homes in Long Branch, New Jersey; and D. C.'s General Post Office, and a street view. Albumen prints, 9x11½ inches (22.8x29.2 cm.) and the reverse, with captions, in ink, on mounts recto. Folios, ½ morocco folding jackets, worn; ties. 1870s