2-752-523 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Scene on the East River', 1874. Ships in the port of, New York, USA. ' Our artist has sketched the moving panorama of the East River, also showing the unfinished tower of the contemplated [Brooklyn?] bridge - a picture full of life, color, and light'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]