Original hand-colored lithograph of an old house on 16th Street, near Third Avenue in New York, as it stood in 1861. Printed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, for the 1862 Valentine's Manual.
Original hand-colored lithograph of an old house on 16th Street, near Third Avenue in New York, as it stood in 1861. Printed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, for the 1862 Valentine's Manual.
The Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, edited by D. T. Valentine, recorded every year views of old houses shortly before they disappeared; its lithographs are today one of the principal graphic sources for pre-Civil War New York.
Medium: Lithograph, hand-colored.
Lithographer: Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, New York.
Date: 1862.
Source: D. T. Valentine's Manual, 1862.
Dimensions: 4.4 x 7.1 in (11.3 x 18 cm).
Condition: Good; light browning of the edges and an old pencil note 1862 in the upper right margin.