The Old Print Shop

The City of New York.

  • ARTIST: Charles Parsons

  • PUBLISHER: New York Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St.

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph printed in color,

    DATE: 1876.

  • EDITION SIZE: Large folio - image size 20 1/8 x 32 5/8" (51.2 x 80.3 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Sketched & drawn on stone by Parsons & Atwater. Key identifies seventy-five locations or buildings. The steamers in the foreground are (left to right) Massachusetts, Providence, and City of New York. The view shows the proposed Great East River Suspension Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge) before it was completed in 1883.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Fair condition, good color. Several small marginal tears and one small hole in the left margin, backed on Japan paper.

  • REFERENCE: Conningham #1107.