Books and Manuscripts

New York: Geo. Ward Nichols & Goupil & Co. (M. Knoedler, Succr.), 1861. Hand-colored etching. Painted and etched by Geo. L. Brown, finished by A.H. Ritchie. Laid down on paper. 14 x 25 1/2 in. (355 x 647 mm). In mat and in frame, 20 1/2 x 31 5/8 in. (521 x 803 mm).

A view of the Hudson River and New York City taken from Weehawken, New Jersey. "This plate was intended as a souvenir of the Prince of Wales's visit to New York; the project having been abandoned, it was afterwards finished by Ritchie and a few proofs printed." (Joshua Hawkins Jordan, A Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Rare Views of Old New York, 1909)