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Black Rock New York Harbor Lighthouse, Antique Steel Engraving c.1850
£195
$255 · €229
Original print, not a reproduction.
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- 1850
- Sheet size
- 5.7 × 9.3 in (14.4 × 23.7 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Good condition for its age with light overall toning and scattered foxing mainly visible in the margins. Plate mark visible. Paper remains strong and stable.
- Collection
- Harbours & ports
- Era
- 1850 and after, Steam and steel
- Stock no.
- f_49144332
A lighthouse and a rough harbor sea, an original steel engraving from Meyers Universum, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Germany around 1850. The plate is printed in black and lettered "Black-Rock" with "New-York" beneath it.
Waves break against a tall stone lighthouse with a lantern gallery at the right, set on a low fortified wall that runs across the middle distance. In the foreground a small boat heaves in the swell with several men aboard and a white horse, while gulls wheel overhead. A large square-rigged ship and other sailing vessels labor in the heavy sea behind, under dark, stormy clouds, with the flat shore faint on the horizon.
Black Rock was a harbor village on the Niagara River, at the point where Lake Erie flows out, near Buffalo, and a rival to Buffalo in the early 19th century before it was absorbed into the city.
