Broadway and City Hall in New York (Brodway-Gatan Och Rådhuset i New York)

Axel Klinckowström|Carl Fredrik Akrell

1824 · Etching and aquatint · Drawings and Prints

Duncan Phyfe's furniture workshop and warehouse stood on Fulton Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in nineteenth-century Manhattan. Constructed in 1816 and named in honor of Robert Fulton, the pioneer of steamboat transportation, Fulton Street connected three small, previously disjointed roads into a major commercial avenue. In this print, the viewer looks north from the intersection of Broadway and Fulton toward City Hall (built 1813). By 1820, this area had become a shopping destination for New York's fashionable and sophisticated elite. To the far left of the image is the northernmost column of Saint Paul's pedimented facade.

Artist

Axel Klinckowström|Carl Fredrik Akrell

Date

1824

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924