Artist/Maker Francis Guy (American, born England, 1760 – 1820)

Tontine Coffee House, New York City

ca. 1797

Oil on linen

Unframed: 43 × 65 × 2 in. (109.2 × 165.1 × 5.1 cm)
Framed: 54 1/2 in. × 6 ft. 5 1/8 in. × 5 1/16 in. (138.4 × 195.9 × 12.9 cm)

Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund. Sponsored by Laurie and Sy Sternberg.

1907.32

Francis Guy, one of the first artists in America to specialize in landscapes, depicted the financial crossroads of eighteenth-century New York. The Tontine Coffee House was built at the intersection of Wall and Water Streets in 1792-1793 and quickly became an important meeting place for merchants and traders to bargain for cargo from ships arriving at the East River wharves visible in the background.

DescriptionCityscape showing Tontine Coffee House at the intersection of Wall and Water Streets in the late-18th century.

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