Newyorks Hamn och Redd, Från Brooklyn på Longisland (New York Harbor and Docks, from Brooklyn, Long Island)

Etcher Carl Fredrik Akrell Swedish
After Axel Klinckowström Swedish
1824
Not on view
A view of New York in 1820 made to be bound into "Atlas til Freiherre Baron Klinckströms Bref om de Förente Staerne" ("Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckström's Letters about the United States"), written during his travels 1818-20 and published in Stockholm by Eckstein in 1824. The image shows types of steam ferries and sail boats in use around 1820.

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  • Title: Newyorks Hamn och Redd, Från Brooklyn på Longisland (New York Harbor and Docks, from Brooklyn, Long Island)
  • Etcher: Carl Fredrik Akrell (Swedish, 1779–1868)
  • Artist: After Axel Klinckowström (Swedish, 1775–1837)
  • Date: 1824
  • Medium: Etching and aquatint
  • Dimensions: Plate: 12 5/16 x 13 15/16 in. (31.2 x 35.4 cm)
    Sheet: 15 1/16 x 21 3/4 in. (38.2 x 55.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.90.328
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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