Samuel P. Avery engraving a woodblock
After Thomas Charles Farrer American
Sitter Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. American
Dedicatee William Brisbane Dick American
Not on view
Photograph of a drawing by Thomas Farrer, signed with initials and dated 1860, showing Samuel Putnam Avery at work engraving a woodblock. The sitter holds the block up close to his face, and sits next to a table covered with tools and equipment. The drawing on which this is based was made from life at 48 Beekman Street.