NEW YORK CITY Central Park Scenery

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood engraving or Xylograph - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1883 Publisher: F. von Hellwald, Leipzig, Heinrich Schmid & Carl Gunther Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair) Light age toning of paper, slightly darker along the edges. Dimensions: 9.5 x 13 inches (24 x 33 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the images. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Notes: Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. Photos show the overall view of print and image detail. Slight distortion of the shape of print in the photo is caused by the camera. Narrative: Through the Narrows opens the inner Bay ; and, as we swiftly cut through the crisp and ever fretted waters, New York rises before us from the sea, in the centre of the picture ; the city of Brooklyn, on Long Island, to the right, spreads a far and measureless sea of roofs, with endless, sky aspiring spires; the shores of New Jersey extend along the far western border of the picture, on the left, with faint markings of Jersey City a little beyond, on the shores of the Hudson. The picture cannot easily be excelled for beauty ; but one or two bays in the world are finer, and none are more animated with stirring and picturesque life. Here are the tall, white-sailed ships; the swift, black-funnelled steamers; the stately steam-boats from the Hudson or the Sound; the graceful, winged pleasure-yachts; the snorting, bull-dog tugs; the quaint, tall-masted, and broad-sailed schooners; the flotilla of barges and canal-boats; the crab-shaped but swift-motioned ferry-boats, all coming, going, swiftly or slowly, amid fleets of anchored ships, from whose gaffs fly the flags of far-off nations. At the corner of Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue is the main entrance to Central Park. This park extends northward to One Hundred and Tenth Street, or a distance of two and a half miles, but it is not more than half a mile wide. Central Park is the, pride of the metropolis. Less than twenty Years ago the greater part of its area was a mass of rude rocks, tangled brushwood, and ash-heaps. It had long been the ground for depositing city-refuse, and , tens of thousands of cart-loads of this refuse had to be removed before the natural surface could be, reached or the playing out begun. Art had to do every thing for it. There were no forests, no groves, no lawns, no lakes, no walks; it was simply a desert of rocks and rubbish. The ground was excavated for lakes; trees were planted ; roads and paths laid out ; bridges built. The result is a pleasure-ground that is already famous, and only needs a little more maturing of the trees to be one of the handsomest parks of the world. It is not so large as some in Europe, but its size is not insignificant, numbering eight hundred and forty-three acres unexcelled abroad. Our artist gives a few glimpses at places in the park, but it would take a volume to illustrate it fully. One element of satisfaction in the park is that it is not only an art and picturesque triumph-it is a popular success. Its superb drives are thronged with vehicles, while all its paths are occupied on summer afternoons by immense numbers of the people. The enjoyment of the visitors is enhanced by many extraneous means. There are an aviary and a menagerie tolerably well filled, and which are the nuclei of what are destined to be large institutions ; and there is also a Museum of Natural History. There are boats on the lakes ; a camera; and twice a week there is music. For the children there are nurseries, goat - carriages, camel - riding, swings, fun-rounds," and other devices. Above Central Park, the whole island has been recently laid out anew in superb. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. eBay seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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