DE WITT CLINTON FALLS Fifth Ave Viaduct Harlem Coach

Sale 2403 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 422

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400

DE WITT CLINTON FALLS.
Fifth Ave Viaduct Harlem Coach. Watercolor and ink on board 279x470 mm; 11x18 1/2 inches, image on board measuring 15x21 3/4 inches. Signed in image, lower right and "Copyright by Wm. Clausen 1901" in lower left.

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"Coaching Day," held annually on the last Saturday in May, was the New York Coaching Club's grand parade along Fifth Avenue. New York City's wealthy and fashionable leisure class of the late 19th Century would form in front of the Brunswick Hotel in brilliantly decorated four-in-hand tally-ho coaches. With the president of the club leading, they moved up Fifth Avenue to 59th Street, through Central Park to Mt. St. Vincent, returning to the Avenue and down to Washington Square, before driving back to the Brunswick for the club's annual dinner"--The New York Coaching Club, article 5/22/2012.