View of the New York quarantine, Staten Island / painted & engraved by W.J. Bennett. – 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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This rare historic print captures View of the New York quarantine, Staten Island / painted & engraved by W.J. Bennett. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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View of the New York quarantine, Staten Island / painted & engraved by W.J. Bennett.
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The view shows the quarantine station on Staten Island, where ships arriving at New York were held and inspected before their passengers and cargo could move into the city. Its location at the harbor mouth made it a working checkpoint for incoming vessels, a role that grew more pressing in the 1820s and 1830s, when port authorities worried about yellow fever and cholera. The print was painted and engraved by W.J. Bennett, an English-born artist known for aquatint views of American harbors and cities, and it was published in New York around 1833 by Parker & Co. and Lewis P. Clover. Its hand coloring and the boats in the foreground make it useful for seeing how the harbor looked in that period.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Parker & Co. 186 and by Lewis P. Clover, 180 Fulton Street, c1833. |
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| Medium | 1 print : aquatint, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Aquatints Hand-colored 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1833 by Parker & Clover in the office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New York. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 100. |
| Subjects | Boats--1830-1840. Quarantines--New York (State)--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117128 |
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