Wall Street - 1829
Wall Street, looking west toward the Trinity Church. Aquatint engraving by Raoul Varin (1865-1943), printed by Sidney Z. Lucas. Title: Wall Street in 1829. Illustration based on older lithograph by unknown artist, owned by the New-York Historical Society, published in The Iconography of Manhattan Island..., 1918 by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, who believed the year depicted was about 1829 and year issued probably about 1834 (see his comments below).
Here, comments by Stokes about this engraving:
«The Holden copy, now in the possession of Mr. Harris D. Colt, has the title “Vue de New York” in small black letters on a white border below the print. There are no other variations. This may be an earlier state. The execution of the drawing is distinctly foreign, and the print may have been intended as the decoration of a “‘summer-piece,” of which several somewhat similar examples dating from this period are known.
The date depicted must be after 1827, when, according to the directory, “C. Pool, Barometer and Thermometer Maker,” whose sign appears near the top of the building at Broad and Wall Streets, moved to this address, and before 1831-2, when his address appears as 280 Broadway. The stationer’s sign is probably that of Peter Burtsell, who acquired the old book-store of Stephen Gould in 1825...
The view is evidently a copy from the charming little Burton view, reproduced as Plate 13th (upper) in Bourne’s Views of New York, published in 1831-2, and engraved by Hatch & Smillie. A comparison of the two leaves no doubt as to the fact that the Burton view was the original. The carriage in the foreground of the lithograph, which does not occur in the original, is evidently of a foreign design, and the misspelling of the words “Blanss” and “Stationary,” which appear on the sign on the building at the south-west corner of Wall and Broad Streets, is also significant.
Trinity Church, which is seen at the end of the street, is the second church building which occupied this site, and was built in 1788-90, and demolished in 1839. The Presbyterian Church, on the north side of Wall Street, between Broadway and Nassau Street, was erected in 1719, and rebuilt in 1810. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1834, and again rebuilt in the following year; and in 1844 taken down and re-erected in Jersey City (...).
The Custom House, seen on the north side of Wall Street, and occupying the site of the old Federal Hall, was erected in 1813-14 as a store by Eastburn & Kirk, who sold the property to the United States for a custom house on December 2, 1816.
The building on the extreme left, on the south-east corner of Broad and Wall Streets, occupies the site of the old Watch House at No. 1 Broad Street...»
Bourne’s Views of New York.
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