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Contact: Charles Schwartz
Email: cms@cs-photo.com
Phone: 212-534-4496
Company: Charles Schwartz Ltd.
Company: 21 East 90th Street
Company: New York, NY 10128 USA
URL: http://www.cs-photo.com
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| Ref.#: 7677 |
| Price: $25,000 |
| Medium: Vintage Albumen Print |
| Image Date: 1862 |
| Print Date: 1862 ca. |
| Dimensions: 5.25 x 5.25 in. (133 x 133 mm) |
| Photo Country: United States (USA) |
| Photographer Country: France |
| Description: View of Willowdell Arch With the Team That Created Central Park Standing on the Pathway Over the Span: From Right: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jacob Wrey Mould, Ignaz Anton Pilat, Calvert Vaux, George Waring, and Andrew Haswell Green.
Prevost blindstamp on recto of mount. Dated Sept. 23, 1862 on verso.
Olmsted at left - Vaux next to him.
Olmsted - chief creative force and visionary co-designer of Central Park, was superintendent during much of park's construction; Mould - English architect considered "the greatest ornamentist of modern times," created much of the detail on park's structures; Pilat - Viennese landscape gardener and the park's master horticulturalist (supervised all planting); Vaux - English architect and co-designer of the park; Waring - sanitary engineer who laid out the park's innovative drainage system; Green - powerful lawyer and president of the Park Commission.
Illstrated (with detailed identification): "New York, an Illustrated History," by Ric Burns & James Sanders, Alfred Knopf, NY, 1999, p.109. 1 |
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