Exchange Place, Great Fire of New York City in 1835

View of the ruins after the Great Fire of December 16-17, 1835, as seen from Exchange Place, looking east. Hand colored lithograph by the British artist William James Bennett (1787-1844), after oil painting by Italian-born artist Nicolino V. Calyo (1799-1884), who also painted other views of this conflagration. Published by Lewis Peter Clover, issued 1836.

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This was the Great Conflagration of 1835. The fire burned about 17 blocks in Lower Manhattan, from the night of December 16 until the afternoon of the next day.

Here, part of the description of this image by Stokes (Iconography of Manhattan Island, ... 1918): «The ruin on the left is the old Garden Street Church [South Dutch Reformed Church]. This is the only contemporary representation that we have of this church, as rebuilt in 1807. It was in the belfry of this building that the corner-stone of the old Church in the Fort perished in this fire...»