Sep 26 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2679 -

Sale 2679 - Lot 7

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

CHARLES MOTTRAM; after JOHN W. HILL (1812-1879)


New York. 1855 [but 20th century].
Large hand-colored aquatint and engraved view of lower Manhattan with various vessels in the forefront East River. 85x138 cm, 33¾x54½ inches, sheet size, wide margins, mounted on foam core board; New York: F. & G.W. Smith.

Later restrike of the original nineteenth-century copper plate with "Proof" and "Printed by McQueen, London" burnished out of the lower margin.