The Harsen Homestead, Corner of 10th Avenue and 70th Street, from "Scenes of Old New York"
1876
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 4 11/16 x 6 3/16 in. (11.9 x 15.7 cm) sheet: 5 3/16 x 2 3/4 in. (13.2 x 7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
Accession Number
54.90.928
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into 19th-century New York with Henry Farrer's delicate etching *The Harsen Homestead, of 10th Avenue 70th Street*, his series *Scenes of Old York* (1876). This print captures a quaint colonial-era house perched at a bustling urban corner, its simple gabled facade and wooden shutters evoking the rural roots of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Farrer, an English-American artist active in the etching revival, used his precise technique to document these vanishing landmarks amid the city's explosive growth. Created as an etching—a process where acid bites into a metal plate to create fine, expr...
About the Artist
Henry Farrer
Henry Farrer (1843–1903) was a British-born American etcher and watercolorist who played a significant role in the development of the etching revival in the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Born in London, Farrer emigrated to the United States, where he became a founding member of the New York Etching Club in 1877, an organization that brought together American print...