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Grand Canal Celebration: View of the Fleet Preparing to Form in Line

Lithographer Anthony Imbert American
After Archibald Robertson American, Scottish
Printer W. A. Davis American
1825
Not on view
Published, opposite page 187, in Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Canals...at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, New York, 1825.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Grand Canal Celebration: View of the Fleet Preparing to Form in Line
  • Lithographer: Anthony Imbert (American, born France, active New York 1825–ca. 1838)
  • Artist: After Archibald Robertson (American, Moneymusk, Scotland 1765–1835 New York)
  • Printer: W. A. Davis (New York, NY) for the City of New York
  • Date: 1825
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Image: 8 7/16 × 39 3/4 in. (21.4 × 101 cm)
    Image with text: 9 1/8 × 49 3/4 in. (23.3 × 126.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923
  • Object Number: 23.69.23
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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