Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

Robert Havell Jr.|James Fulton Pringle|W. Neale|William A. Colman|Ackermann & Co., London|Robert Havell Jr.

1844 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint · Drawings and Prints

This beautiful aquatint was issued in 1844 as a companion piece to "Panoramic View of New York Taken from the East River." When he arrived in America in 1839, Robert Havell was celebrated for engravings he had produced with his father for John James Audubon's famous "The Birds of America." Living in New York, Havell continued to produce high-quality prints and also established himself as a Hudson River school painter. The huge steamship seen here at left, the British Queen, was the first transatlantic steamboat, and arrived in New York for the first time in July 1839.

Artist

Robert Havell Jr.|James Fulton Pringle|W. Neale|William A. Colman|Ackermann & Co., London|Robert Havell Jr.

Date

1844

Medium

Hand-colored etching and aquatint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954