ARTIST: Lewis Bradley
PUBLISHER: Published by Smith Bros. & Co. 225 Fulton St. N.Y.
MEDIUM: Two-color lithograph with handcoloring,
DATE: undated c.1852.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 21 1/4 x 35 9/16" (54 x 90.4 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Lewis Bradley del. On stone by D. W. Moody. A fabulous and quite rare view of the city. The fabulous Smith Brothers. "During an eight-year period beginning in 1848, the four Smith brothers issued a remarkably fine series of large folio city views. A few of these were engraved, but about forty others were lithographed by highly skilled printers in Boston and New York." John Reps. The prints that they produced as a rule were large, imposing, detailed, accurate and quite beautiful.
ADDITIONAL INFO: Churches identified with manuscript writing and notes in right margin identify some cottages.
CONDITION: Fair condition, good color. A brilliant impression, tear in right margin 8" into color, small tear in title margin, backed on Japan paper.
REFERENCE: Reps #2908.
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