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Newspaper article accompanying print in The Sun, Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, January 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished

Lithographer Nathaniel Currier American
Publisher The New York Sun American
1840
Not on view
A fire blazes through The Lexington steamship as survivors hold on to floating pieces of ship debris. A map of Long Island Sound appears below the image. This version was printed at the Sun Office and has "The Extra Sun" printed at the top of the sheet. Seven newspaper columns have been trimmed from the lower portion of the original sheet. The seven columns of newspaper coverage accompany the print 63.550.345(1).

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Object Information
  • Title: Newspaper article accompanying print in The Sun, Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, January 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished
  • Artist: William Keesey Hewitt (American, 1817–1893)
  • Lithographer: Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
  • Publisher: The New York Sun
  • Date: 1840
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 11 9/16 × 16 1/16 in. (29.4 × 40.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
  • Object Number: 63.550.345(2)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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