View of the Ruins after the Great Fire in New York, Dec. 16th & 17th, 1835 as seen from Exchange Place

by William James Bennett, c.

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

The ruin on the left is the Old Garden Street Church; this aquatint is the only contemporary representation that we have of this church, as rebuilt in 1807 Stokes, Iconography..., page 618 . Nicolino Calyo, an Italian portrait and miniature artist emigrated from Italy in 1834. An eyewitness to the Great Fire of 1835, he sketched the catastrophe as it unfolded throughout the day and night. He later painted a number of compositions based on these sketches, in gouache, and some of these were

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