New York Harbour
Item Information
- Title:
- New York Harbour
- Description:
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The skyscrapers of lower Manhattan are seen across the East River from the Brooklyn waterfront. The City Bank Farmers Trust Building (to left of centre) and City Service Building (to right of centre) dominate the line of skyscrapers which extend from the Whitehall Building on the left to the Singer Building, Fulton Fish Market, and Beekman Street on the right. In the foreground men are cleaning the surface of a pier built on wooden piles. A tug approaches on the right.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1941
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Cityscape prints
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James McBey (1883-1959). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Harbors
Waterfronts
Piers & wharves
Skyscrapers
- Places:
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New York > New York > Manhattan
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 26 x 38 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419213t
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hardie and Carter: C. 279
Additional information accompanying item: The Woolworth building dominates the line of skyscrapers. In the foreground is a pier built on wooden piles. On it a group of men are cleaning the surface. The roof of the shed of the "Porto Rico Line" in the center is dark.
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
- Notes (citation):
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Hardie, Martin, and Charles Carter. "The etchings and drypoints of James McBey (1883-1959)." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Trial proof (1). The roof of the shed of the "Porto Rico Line" in the centre is shaded. No. 2, touched with pencil.
- Identifier:
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17_06_001022
- Barcode:
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36666000003612
