Charcoal drawings and commentary on: Wall Street; The Skyscraper; The Brooklyn Bridge; The City Hall; Castle Garden; Behind Shinbone Alley; Elizabeth Street; Clinton Court; No. 5 West Twenty-eighth Street; The Little Church Around the Corner; The Grand Canyon on the Yellow; The Stock Exchange; The Upheaval; The Subway - Brooklyn Bridge; Manhattan; Madison Square; Gansevoort Market; Edgar Allan Poe's House at Fordham; Jumel Mansion; The Bronx; and The Willows Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was an engineer, artist, ...
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Charcoal drawings and commentary on: Wall Street; The Skyscraper; The Brooklyn Bridge; The City Hall; Castle Garden; Behind Shinbone Alley; Elizabeth Street; Clinton Court; No. 5 West Twenty-eighth Street; The Little Church Around the Corner; The Grand Canyon on the Yellow; The Stock Exchange; The Upheaval; The Subway - Brooklyn Bridge; Manhattan; Madison Square; Gansevoort Market; Edgar Allan Poe's House at Fordham; Jumel Mansion; The Bronx; and The Willows Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was an engineer, artist, illustrator, and short story writer. As a successful engineer he took on difficult feats such as the foundations for the Statue of Liberty, the foundation of Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Long Island Sound, the design of Butlers Flat Lighthouse at the entrance to the harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the Race Rock Light in Fisher's Island Sound. As he devoted more and more time to his hobby, which was painting, he traveled frequently to Europe and became known for his work in portraits, genre, and illustration.
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Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York; to cart. $23.00, good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday, Page & company.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York; to cart. $24.99, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday, Page & company.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York to cart. $35.01, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Fredonia Books.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York to cart. $100.00, good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday, Page & company.
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Good+ Hardcover. 4to. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York. 1912. 142 pgs. Illustrated with 21 full-page plate is accompanied with an explanatory text from the author. Bound in half cloth and paper covered boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly soiled). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was a self-taught artist from Baltimore who trained and worked as a naval engineer, designing and/or working on such important projects as the foundation for the Statue of Liberty and the Race Rock Lighthouse off Block Island. He began spending summers in the White Mts. Of New Hampshire and later gained a reputation as "the most prolific artist of views of the region". He gained a reputation, however, in charcoal, drawing upon his superior skill as a draughtsman/engineer, and later produced a portfolio of several hundred sketches entitled "Venice of Today". This Archive traces his emotional and creative response to key sites in New York City, which resulted in his 1912 book Charcoals of New and Old New York, an amalgam of creative prose and charcoal sketches of Wall Street, The Skyscraper, The Brooklyn Bridge, The City Hall, Castle Garden, The Stock Exchange, Washington Square, and others. F. Hopkinson Smith was also a very successful author, creating works of fiction including "Colonel Carter of Cartersville; Gondola Days; The Fortunes of Oliver Horn; and non-fiction, such as his travelogue In Dickens's London, etc. EB; 4to 11"-13" tall.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday.
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Very good(-) 23 mounted plates by the author, most full page. 142pp. of text. Large 4to, off white cloth-backed boards, pictorial cover label; uncut, edges of cloth corners lightly worn, cloth and boards lightly soiled. Garden City: Doubleday, 1912.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by J Mercurio Books Maps & Prints rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Garrison, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York to cart. $200.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday.
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Very good(+) 23 mounted plates, most full page. 142pp. of text. Large 4to, off white cloth-backed boards, pictorial cover label; uncut, corners bumped, lightly dust soiled. New York: Doubleday, 1912. Very good (+). One of 125 numbered copies, signed by the author/illustrator.
Add this copy of Charcoals of New and Old New York to cart. $780.00, like new condition, Sold by J Mercurio Books Maps & Prints rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Garrison, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
