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Proposed Arcade Railway Under Broadway

Attributed to August Will American
Lithographer Ferdinand Mayer & Sons American
Designer Melville C. Smith American
1870
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Proposed Arcade Railway Under Broadway
  • Artist: Attributed to August Will (American, Weimar, Germany 1834–1910 Jersey City, New Jersey)
  • Lithographer: Ferdinand Mayer & Sons (American, active 1854–ca. 1877)
  • Designer: Melville C. Smith
  • Date: 1870
  • Medium: Color lithograph; first state
  • Dimensions: image: 17 13/16 x 23 3/4 in. (45.2 x 60.3 cm)
    sheet: 21 11/16 x 27 9/16 in. (55.1 x 70 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: 54.90.606
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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