Photograph of Fifth Avenue looking southward from the roof of the Arsenal at 64th Street

by New York City, Victor Prevost, attributed to

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Albumen photograph printed from a paper negative, 8-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Likely mounted in an album and removed, with remnants of prior mounting on verso. Very light pencil inscription in the image. Matted. Julie Mellby Victor Prevost: Painter, Lithographer, Photographer History of Photography, 35:3 2011 , pp. 221-239. Item #353610 An extraordinary photograph taken at the very beginnings of the construction of Central Park.

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