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Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

1840
Not on view
This beautiful aquatint was executed about 1840 but was reissued in 1844 as a companion piece to "Panoramic View of New York Taken from the East River." When he arrived in America in 1839, Robert Havell was already celebrated for the engravings he produced with his father for John James Audubon's famous "The Birds of America." Living in New York, Havell continued to produce high-quality prints like these views, and also established himself as a landscape painter working in the Hudson River school style.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River
  • Artist and publisher: Drawn and etched by Robert Havell Jr. (American (born England), Reading 1793–1878 Tarrytown, New York)
  • Artist: Vessels by James Fulton Pringle (American (born England) Sydenham 1788–1847 Brooklyn, New York)
  • Publisher: Robert Havell Jr. (American (born England), Reading 1793–1878 Tarrytown, New York)
  • Publisher: William A. Colman (New York, NY)
  • Publisher: Ackermann & Co., London (British, active 1829–55)
  • Date: 1840
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint; first state of two
  • Dimensions: plate: 8 7/8 x 32 in. (22.5 x 81.3 cm)
    sheet: 11 1/4 x 33 1/2 in. (28.6 x 85.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
  • Object Number: 54.90.740
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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