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Submission Illustration for the Central Park Competition: View from the Site of the Principal Entrance on Fifty-Ninth Street, Looking Northerly, New York City
Submission Illustration for the Central Park Competition: View from the Site of the Principal Entrance on Fifty-Ninth Street, Looking Northerly, New York City
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Submission Illustration for the Central Park Competition: View from the Site of the Principal Entrance on Fifty-Ninth Street, Looking Northerly, New York City

1857
Place madeNew York, United States, North America
Brown ink and wash, graphite, and touches of white lead pigment on heavy paper mounted on green paper
Overall: 10 3/4 × 14 7/8 in. (27.3 × 37.8 cm)
Purchased from Mrs. Y. I. Graves
1925.158
DescriptionCityscape
InscribedMount inscribed below in brown wash: "View from the site of the principal Entrance on 59th. St. (1857.) / -- looking Northerly"; at upper left in graphite: "No.. 1."; at lower left: "No 6.A. / Catalogue letter 'I'"
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