Advertisement for Street Car and Omnibus made by John Stephenson of New York
1865
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Merri Ferrell, 2019
Accession Number
2019.207.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the bustling streets of 1860s New York with this charming 1865 wood engraving by John Durand III, titledAdvertisement for Street Car andnibus made by John Stephenson New York*. Measuring a compact 10 × 8 inches, this print promotes the innovative vehicles crafted by John Stephenson, a leading manufacturer whose horse-drawn streetcars and omnibuses urban transport. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department (gift of Merri Fer, 2019), it captures the era's entrepreneurial spirit through detailed illustrations of sleek carriages ready for city life. Created...