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City of Cincinnati – Antique Print

City of Cincinnati, c1872. — antique engraving
City of Cincinnati, c1872.. Antique engraving from the Cincinnati collection.

(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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Step back in time with City of Cincinnati, an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Steel engravings of this kind were produced by W. Wellstood from drawings by A.C. Warren, and this view of Cincinnati appeared in the second volume of *Picturesque America*, the illustrated survey of American scenery and towns that William Cullen Bryant edited for D. Appleton & Company. By the early 1870s Cincinnati, on the Ohio River, was among the largest river ports and manufacturing centers in the country, and the publication's engravings were meant to show such places to readers across the nation. The record's details are old and not fully verified, but the print reflects the mid-century habit of presenting American cities as both working places and scenic subjects.

Created / publishedc1872.
Medium1 print : steel engraving.
SubjectsSteel engraving by W. Wellstood after A.C. Warren; copyrighted by D. Appleton & Co., N.Y. Illus. in: Wm. Cullen Bryant, Picturesque America, v. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. Index; BI--Works; Ohio--Cincinnati; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120096

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