View of the Park Fountain & City Hall, N.Y.

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Publisher Nathanial Currier (American, 1813 - 1888)

Datepublished 1846

MediumHand-colored lithograph

DimensionsComposition: 8 in. × 11 5/8 in. (20.3 × 29.5 cm) Sheet: 10 × 14 in. (25.4 × 35.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.89

Not on view

DescriptionStreet scene with city hall and park fountain at the center foreground.

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1983
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "William H. Bartlett," February 26 - March 25, 1983 (no cat.) [Gallery III].

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Markings None noted.

Published References Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 6422

Signature Not signed.

Inscribed "LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER," al lower left in typeset in black ink; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y." at lower center in typeset in black ink; "2 SPRUCE ST. N.Y." at lower right in typeset in black ink; "VIEW OF THE PARK FOUNTAIN & CITY HALL N.Y. / No. 401." at lower center in typeset in black ink; "1" [encircled] at lower left in pencil; "CNY" on verso at lower left in pencil.