After Frederick Catherwood
After Frederick Catherwood

New York City from Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, by Henry Papprill

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After Frederick Catherwood
New York City from Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, by Henry Papprill
aquatint printed in colour and finished by hand, proof before title, published by Henry Megarey, New York
20 1/8 x 27 ¾in. (51.1 x 70.5cm.)

Lot Essay

'Catherwood's view of New York from Governor's Island was sketched in watercolor sometime after he took up residence in New York in August 1844 at 86 Prince Street. By the spring of the following year, he had left for a journey to South America, ... Two states of the Catherwood-Papprill print exist. Impressions with the copyright notice are more rare than those without it.' (G.G. Deák, Picturing America, 1497-1899, vol. 1, Princeton, 1988, pp.356-7, no. 531)

For a similar proof before letters including, as here, the engraver's name scratched in small letters in the centre of the lower margin, see the proof recorded in Stokes, 1846-E-121.

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