Samuel Seymour
View of the City of New York in the State of New York, North America

ArtistAmerican, born England, active 1777–1823
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • View of the City of New York in the State of New York, North America
Date1803
Printed inBristol, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumEtching and engraving on wove paper, state II/III
DimensionsPlate: 21 × 25 in. (53.3 × 63.5 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/4 × 27 in. (56.5 × 68.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the Mary Beth Baird bequest, by exchange
Object numberB.2015.2
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionWilliam Russell Birch created this view of New York to stimulate interest in a series of engraved views of that city similar to his successful portfolio The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800, the first significant collection of views of a United States city, but the work never came to fruition.
Provenance[Arader Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, left: Painted by William Birch
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, center: The City of [cursive] / New York [cursive] IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK North America [cursive]
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, right: Engraved by Samuel Seymour
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image, lower center: Published Jan.y 1. 1803, by W. Birch, Springfield, near Bristol, Pennsylvania.
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Catalogue raisonnéDeak, Picturing America, 245; Pyne collection (1912), 29; Stauffer 2884; Fielding III, 1427, ii/iii (Seymour); Webster, pp. 81-85.

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