Object Number 1975.0102

Object Name

Print (Wood engraving)

Title

S.E. VIEW OF JERSEY CITY, FROM NEW YORK.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Claneil Foundation

Creator (Role)

John Warner Barber (Engraver and author)
02/02/1798-06/22/1885
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).

Henry Howe (Engraver and author)
10/11/1816-10/14/1893
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).

Place of Origin

New York or Newark, New York or New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Probably published by S. Tuttle in New York, although Benjamin Olds in Newark, New Jersey, also published this title in the 1850s and 1861.

Date

1844-1861

Subjects

Book illustration; City view; Landscape

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Wood Engraved, Letterpress

Construction Description

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.

Dimensions (inches)

5.4 (H) , 8.97 (W) , 3.82 (Image H) , 6.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

13.7 (H) , 22.78 (W) , 3.82 (Image H) , 6.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H near left. W at center. No plate marks.

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

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.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[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.