Stunning Winter Scene on Broadway, New York - Hand-Colored Aquatint from 1857
€ 3 400
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1857
Sheet size
67.5 × 90 cm (26.6 × 35.4 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BGCP-016
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Repaired: Three archival repairs: 1" tear into left image, a slight tear at top left, and one in the right blank margin. Attractive color on heavy paper with light soiling, minor foxing, and small abrasions, including one on fireman's face. Crease in top left.
About this sheet
Broadway in winter, an original hand-colored aquatint with engraving by Paul Girardet after the painting by Hippolyte Victor Valentin Sebron, published by Michael Knoedler of New York with Goupil & Cie, 1857. The plate title "New-York" is engraved beneath the image.
The view looks down the snowy length of Broadway between Spring and Prince Streets. Brick and brownstone buildings with flags flying line both sides of the street. At the center a crowded omnibus drawn by horses is followed by a sleigh at the right, a fire truck and its crew are caught in the traffic at the left, and pedestrians in winter dress cross the street. The Prescott House, opened in 1852, stands at the corner of Spring Street. Next to it is a building with the name Chinese Buildings, which later became Buckley's Minstrel Hall. The color is applied by hand to the figures, flags and buildings against the snow.
Sebron (1801 to 1879), a French painter and pupil of Daguerre, spent six years in America, from 1849 to 1855, and this view of Broadway is his best-known work.
