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Federal Hall, Wall Street, and Trinity Church, New York, in 1789

After Cornelius Tiebout American
Publisher Clay & Richmond American
1879
Not on view
This view of Wall Street features a stately three-story building (Federal Hall) with a colonnaded balcony at the center of the image -- as it looked in 1789. In the right foreground, there are pedestrians on the sidewalk; on the street in the left foreground, a pair of men converse, while beyond, there is a horseback rider and a carriage. In the left background, Trinity Church (with its tall steeple) is shown at the end of Wall Street.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Federal Hall, Wall Street, and Trinity Church, New York, in 1789
  • Artist: After Cornelius Tiebout (American, New York ca. 1773–1832 Indiana)
  • Publisher: Clay & Richmond (American, active 1879–86)
  • Date: 1879
  • Medium: Lithograph with two tint stones
  • Dimensions: Image: 14 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (36.8 × 54.6 cm)
    Image and text: 16 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (42.5 × 54.6 cm)
    Sheet: 17 1/2 × 23 1/4 in. (44.5 × 59 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Florance Waterbury in memory of John I. Waterbury, 1968
  • Object Number: 68.724.20
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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