Staten Island and the Narrows: from Fort Hamilton – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Staten Island and the Narrows: from Fort Hamilton comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Staten Island and the Narrows: from Fort Hamilton
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From the grounds of Fort Hamilton on the Brooklyn shore, this view looks across the Narrows, the strait that funnels ships into New York Harbor, toward the wooded heights of Staten Island. The fort guarded that passage, which gives the scene a quiet military edge beneath its peaceful harbor setting. Frances F. Palmer drew many views like this for Currier & Ives, whose hand-colored lithographs reached a wide public at modest prices. Its date of about 1861 places it in the year the Civil War began, when the harbor's defenses were newly important to the city.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6123 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,368 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172897 |
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