Vue Générale de New-York Prise l'Union Square: Walter c. 1890

Title: Vue Générale de New-York Prise l'Union Square Author: H. Walter after John Bachman Date: c. 1890 Medium: Hand-finished four color lithograph Condition: Very Good Plus - light foxing Inches: 26 3/4 x 18 3/4 [Image] Centimeters: 67.95 x  47.63 [Image] Product ID: 80004 STUNNING VIEW OF NEW YORK View of New York overlooking Union Square, published by Parisian firm Lemercier & Cie.  Extremely rare to the market.  Patterned after a similar view by Bachmann printed in the late 1840's, shows the fountain in Union Square and a slightly elongated view to the south of Manhattan Island to the Battery.  Numerous buildings, churches, factories, and streetcars.  Steam powered and tall masted schooners serve the bustling trade of this rapidly growing world capital.  Close examination will be rewarded with delightfully engraved pedestrians, ladies strolling with parasols, carriages, equestrians and groups socializing, all with shadows suggesting a mild and somewhat idyllic mid