Associated with
Alessandro E. Mario
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
1868
Oil on canvas
Overall: 24 1/4 × 36 1/4 in. (61.6 × 92.1 cm)
Framed: 29 7/8 in. × 41 7/8 in. × 3 in. (75.9 × 106.4 × 7.6 cm)
Framed: 29 7/8 in. × 41 7/8 in. × 3 in. (75.9 × 106.4 × 7.6 cm)
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
1939.586
This panoramic scene looks west from Third Avenue and 46th Street. The title of the painting invites us to contrast the deplorable conditions of the laborers as they work to achieve the chaotic and money-driven northward development of Manhattan, an expansion that receives greater irony because the scene is dominated by the church (later St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church) visible on the horizon.
An oil rendition of this building, St. Peter's Church at 46th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City, by H. H. Reppert, taken in 1904, is also in the Society's collection.
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