wellstood william (5 Ergebnisse)

Engraving. Zustand: Very good. City of Cincinnati, engraving by William Wellstood after an illustration by A.C. Warren. (illustrator). Illustration. Original steel engraving, measures 12.5" x 9.5" including border. Image is clean and sharp. Toning to outside edges. Bottom edge untrimmed. From William Cullen Bryant's Picturesque America, Volume II (1872-1874). A nice example of this charming view of Cincinnati from the surrounding hills. William Wellstood (1819-1900) was born in Scotland and came to the United States with his family in 1830. He and his older brother John both became engravers. While John worked in the field of banknote engraving, William devoted himself to engraving portraits, landscapes and historical subjects. He created a large body of work and gained a notable reputation in his profession.

Engraving. Zustand: Very good. Cincinnati, engraving by William Wellstood. (illustrator). Illustration. Engraving, measures 9.25" x 5.75" including border. Crisp image. Mild foxing, faint toning to outside edges. A nice example of this panoramic view of Cincinnati's Public Landing during the mid-nineteenth century. William Wellstood (1819-1900) was born in Scotland and came to the United States with his family in 1830. He and his older brother John both became engravers. While John worked in the field of banknote engraving, William devoted himself to engraving portraits, landscapes and historical subjects. He created a large body of work and gained a notable reputation in his profession.

Engraving. Zustand: Very good. City of Cincinnati, engraving by William Wellstood after an illustration by A.C. Warren. (illustrator). Illustration. Hand-colored steel engraving, measures 12.5" x 9.25" including border. Clean image, brightly colored. Couple stains along right edge, not affecting image. Unevenly trimmed at lower edge. Appears to have been previously mounted, tape remnants on verso of top edge. From William Cullen Bryant's Picturesque America, Volume II (1872-1874). The vibrant colors of this engraving make it a lovely image of Cincinnati, the "Queen City of the West." William Wellstood (1819-1900) was born in Scotland and came to the United States with his family in 1830. He and his older brother John both became engravers. While John worked in the field of banknote engraving, William devoted himself to engraving portraits, landscapes and historical subjects. He created a large body of work and gained a notable reputation in his profession.

Engraving. Zustand: Very good. Cincinnati, engraving by William Wellstood after an illustration by Samuel B. Munson. (illustrator). Illustration. Hand-colored engraving, measures 8.25" x 5" including border. Brightly colored. Mild toning and spotting. Circled number penciled on lower front corner and two animal drawings penciled on verso. Short closed tear along lower edge, repaired on verso. From The Family Circle and Parlor Annual, Volume VII, Number 10, June 1848. A lovely example of this panoramic view of Cincinnati's Public Landing during the mid-nineteenth century. William Wellstood (1819-1900) was born in Scotland and came to the United States with his family in 1830. He and his older brother John both became engravers. While John worked in the field of banknote engraving, William devoted himself to engraving portraits, landscapes and historical subjects. He created a large body of work and gained a notable reputation in his profession.

Engraving with original hand color, 35" x 48" sheet, 48" x 62" framed. When Henry Papprill and John Hill created their spectacular view of New York Harbor from the steeple of Saint Paul's Chapel, they fashioned the bourgeois taste for large-scale views of the city seen from an ever higher vantage point. This taste was partly imported from Paris and the endeavor of French photographers in the circle of Nadar to take photographs of the burgeoning city from a hot air balloon. On the other hand, John Bachmann was publishing his bird's eye views of Manhattan since the late 1840s and it is within this tradition of urban utopia that the present engraving of New York by Smith and Wellstood fits. Upon its release in 1855 it caused a sensation, as the plate showed the view from the "Heaven-Kissing-Peak" of the Latting Observatory - with its height of 290 feet the then tallest structure in New York City; it was also the immediate predecessor to the Eiffel Tower constructed only a couple of decades later. Stokes (1918) describes the copy of the Down Town Association which - given its provenance - is probably identical to the Arader print: "The view is of unusual interest, as showing the undeveloped state of the city in the vicinity of the reservoir." Indeed, 42nd Street is shown in the foreground with the Croton Reservoir and the New York Crystal Palace where the 1853 Exhibition was held. The Reservoir was built in 1839-42 and, according to Stokes, "covered the eastern half of the plot bounded by Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and 40th and 42nd Streets, the site now occupied by the NY Public Library." The view extends to the harbor and Brooklyn, alternating light and shadow in a coloring technique inherited from watercolor effects. With its impressive dimensions the Smith and Wellstood engraving of New York, Lower Manhattan, and the bay area is an artistic tour de force in every sense - from its bold composition to its meticulous sense of detail and color dynamics. Lit. Caroline Rennolds Milbank: "Ahead of the World: New York Fashion", in Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861, New York / New Haven 2000. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes: "The Iconography of Manhattan Island", New York 1915-1928. #10162F.