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Uncut sheet of illustrations for John Fanning Watson's "Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and Advancement of New-York City and State"

Risso & Browne, Lithographers (active 1832–1839)
Author: John Fanning Watson (American, 1780–1860)
1832

Medium/Technique Lithograph
Credit Line Gift of Dr. Charles E. Clark
Accession NumberM9917
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionThis sheet contains 10 of the 13 lithographic illustrations included in John Fanning Watson's "Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and Advancement of New-York City and State for the Use of Families and Schools (New-York: Published by Collins and Hannay; W. E. Dean printer, 1832).

This sheet does not include the book's frontispiece, which illustrated New York in 1623 and 1832, and an equestrian portrait of Governor Stuyvesant, which was bound in opposite page 131. The frontispiece and equestrian portrait were also printed by Risso and Browne.