Museum Object Number1975.0102 |
Print (Wood engraving)
S.E. VIEW OF JERSEY CITY, FROM NEW YORK.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Claneil Foundation
John Warner Barber (Engraver and author)
Henry Howe (Engraver and author)
References: See publisher's note in Early woodcut views of New York and New Jersey: 304 illustrations from the "Historical collections" by John W. Barber and Henry Howe (New York: Dover Publications, 1975). Barber produced several "historical collections" (containing historical information, geographical descriptions, etc.) on Connecticut (1827), Massachusetts (1839), New York (with Howe, 1841), New Jersey (with Howe, 1844) and Pennsylvania (1844).References: See publisher's note in Early woodcut views of New York and New Jersey: 304 illustrations from the "Historical collections" by John W. Barber and Henry Howe (New York: Dover Publications, 1975). Howe produced several "historical collections" (containing historical information, geographical descriptions, etc.) on New York (with Barber, 1841), New Jersey (with Barber, 1844), Virigina (1845), and Ohio (1847; second ed. 1890).
02/02/179810/11/1816
06/22/188510/14/1893
New York or Newark, New York or New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
Probably published by S. Tuttle in New York, although Benjamin Olds in Newark, New Jersey, also published this title in the 1850s and 1861.
1844-1861
Book illustration; City view; Landscape
Ink; Paper (wove)
Wood Engraved, Letterpress
The use of cotton and linen fibers in the paper, particularly paper used in such a low-priced publication, indicates production before the sulfite paper process of the 1860s.
5.4 (H) , 8.97 (W) , 3.82 (Image H) , 6.3 (Image W)
13.7 (H) , 22.78 (W) , 3.82 (Image H) , 6.3 (Image W)
H near left. W at center. No plate marks.
none
Illustration from J. W. Barber and Henry Howe, Historical collections of the state of New Jersey. First published by S. Tuttle in New York, 1844, with subsequent editions published by Tuttle and other publishers in the 1840s and 1850s. Not known from which publication this print was cut.
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 264, p. 381.
[Book] 1975 Early woodcut views of New York and New Jersey: 304 illustrations from the "Historical collections" by John W. Barber and Henry Howe.
• Print illustrated on p. 93.