?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(RHODE ISLAND.) Pair of scarce early Newport views: "Townsend's Hotel" / "Newport Ruin." 2 lithographs, worn as described. Various places, 1837 and 1833
J[ohn] Childs, lithographer. "Townsend's Hotel, Newport, R.I." Lithograph, 11 x 14 inches; heavy folds, uneven toning, 3 short tears in margins, several individuals identified in manuscript: "Capt. Connor, U.S.R.; R.K. Randolph; Um Ennis; Nat Ruggles; Thomas A. Hazard & Bride," with the year 1837 also added. Townsend's Coffee House or Hotel was a major Newport landmark from the 1790s through 1840s, run by the famed Townsend cabinetmaking family; John Quincy Adams dined there. None traced at auction or in OCLC. We do find a copy reproduced in an Internet press release, "Historic Townsend Table Returns to Newport," which cites it as coming from "the collection on William H. Hammett." [New York], [1837].
Endicott & Swett of New York, lithographers, after William Guy Hall. "Newport Ruin." Lithograph, 12 x 14 inches; worn with several early paper repairs including a 5-inch closed tear and 3 large filled holes in the right margin. A view of the enigmatic ancient structure which has puzzled Newporters for centuries. None traced at auction since 1922. One in OCLC (American Antiquarian Society). Newport, RI: Henry Barber, 1833.
