View of Park Place, New York, from Broadway to Church Street, North Side, A.D. 1854
1854
Medium
Lithograph with tint stones and hand-coloring
Dimensions
Image: 19 1/16 × 35 7/16 in. (48.4 × 90 cm) Sheet: 21 7/8 × 36 1/4 in. (55.6 × 92.1 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
54.90.1172
Tags
Art Historical Context
William Boell’s 1854 lithograph offers a vivid panorama of mid-nineteenth-century New York City, capturing the north side of Park Place between Broadway and Church Street. Created during a period of rapid urban expansion, the print records the city’s transformation into a bustling commercial center, with rows of elegant buildings lining the thoroughfare and horse-drawn carriages animating the scene. Such detailed street views served both as visual records for residents and as souvenirs for visitors eager to document the changing metropolis. The work’s medium—lithograph with tint stones and ha...
About the Artist
William Boell · 1800–1900
William Boell (1800–1900) was an American painter whose life and career elude comprehensive documentation in standard art historical sources, including Wikipedia's lists of American artists before and after 1900, as well as catalogs from institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Absent from rosters of 19th-century American painters—who ranged from luminaries like John Singleton Copley and ...