The Rapelyea Farm House (The White Cottage), New York
A building that stood on 34th Street and 11th Avenue popularly called the White Cottage. Built at the end of the 18th century, it had a fine view of the Hudson River (then called the North River) but was in an advanced state of decay by the 1860s. Part of series of etchings published as a book Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale, 1875, by Eliza Greatorex and M. Dupard, p. 73.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Rapelyea Farm House (The White Cottage), New York
- Artist: Eliza Pratt Greatorex (American (born Ireland), Manorhamilton 1819/20–1897 Paris)
- Date: 1875
- Medium: Etching with plate tone, on chine collé
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.2 × 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 19 3/16 in. (35.8 × 48.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Eleanor Elizabeth Greatorex and Kathleen Manor Greatorex, 1905; Transfered from the Library, 1921
- Object Number: 21.36.313
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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