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Old Ferry Stairs, (painting). Artist:  Chappel, William P., 1801-1880, painter. Title:  Old Ferry Stairs, (painting). Dates:  After 1825. Medium:  Oil on slate paper. Dimensions:  6 1/16 x 9 1/8 in. (15.4 x 23.2 cm). Inscription:  (On back:) No. 3 / the Old Ferry Stairs to Brooklyn L I / at the foot of Catharine St N. Y. / 1808. signed Description:  View looking toward the wharf and the ferry steps at Catherine Street in New York City. In the foreground, small row boats and sailing ships are in the water around the wharf. In the background, the Catherine Street market is visible on the right. Subject:  Waterscape -- Wharf Waterscape -- Boat Cityscape -- New York -- New York City Cityscape -- Street -- Catherine Street Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Market Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Catherine Street Market Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 54.90.491 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Arnold, Edward W. C., New York, New York until 1954. Remarks:  One of twenty-nine small views of New York (nos. 1 and 7 are missing) depicting everyday life. The works are executed on slate paper that has been dated after 1825, though the views depict scenes of earlier times, during the artist's youth in New York. The works may have been done around 1869, or possibly around 1876 when the United States centennial celebration made people nostalgic. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 441. Illustration:  Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 441. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120903   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120903 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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