Prospect Park, View From the Reservoir Looking West / Prospect Park, View From the Reservoir Looking East

Verlag: Endicott & Co., New York, 1860

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Tinted lithograph, 8 ¾" x 16" sheet (each). The double portrait of Prospect Park is the epitome of a so-called pictorial view, that is the representation of an idealized scenery according to the taxonomy of Elen Deming (2000). It obeys the compositional techniques of European landscape painting in the wake of Claude and Poussin, differentiating between the fore-, middle- and background as well as adapting a relatively low viewpoint. All of these elements can be found in Fritz Meyer’s atmospheric rendering of New York’s Prospect Park. With its juxtaposition of landscaped elements and the city skyline in the far distance it conjures not so much a contrast between these primordial states than the idea of urban utopia - fashioned in the second half of the 19th century. Nature and civilisation were thought not to be mutually exclusive. As for the identity of Fritz Meyer, little is known. His name and some surviving drawings suggest that he was a German immigrant and Peters (1931) only reports that he "drew many portraits for Dumke & Keil." The impetus to build Prospect Park came from the New York State Legislature in 1859 when it empowered a commission to designate potential sites for parks in Brooklyn, considered the first commuter neighborhood in the world. It should be remembered that construction on Central Park only began in the 1850s and similarly Prospect Park - at the creation date of the present prints - was only in the making. The first section of the Park opened to the public in 1867. One is thus tempted to see in Meyer’s double view an anticipation of Vaux and Olmstead’s vision. Its rural character blends with broad, yet unpaved, roads. What is more, the scarce hints at architectural elements in the East view helps to tentatively identify the artist’s location as Mount Prospect - the second highest point in Brooklyn drawing its name from that very same sweeping vistas. The City of Brooklyn built a reservoir at its peak in 1856. Prospect Park was a highly unusual subject for 19th century prints. A true rarity, there are no sales of "Prospect Park" recorded by the Rare Book Hub database. Similarly, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library only have the "View From the Reservoir Looking West" in their collection. Its companion piece does not appear to be documented in the collections of New York institutions. Lit. Elen Deming: "The Country and the City: John Bachmann’s Views of Manhattan & Central Park", in Landscape Journal 19 (2000), pp. 111-125. Harry Peters: "America on Stone: The Other Printmakers to the American People", Garden City / New York 1931. #10165B.…

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Titel
Prospect Park, View From the Reservoir Looking West / Prospect Park, View From the Reservoir Looking East
Autor
MEYER, Fritz (active 1850s-1880s)
Verlag
Endicott & Co., New York
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1860
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