"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color tape stain to upper corner

tape stain to upper corner tips

and her design work seen literally everywhere

to New York City early in the the last century

signed in pencil & titled in lower left margin

Alden Weir and Mahonri Young at Weir Farm

"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color tape stain to upper cornerEtching, 1879, as published in American Art Review, plate 8 5 8 x 5 7 8, image 6 7 8 x 4 7 8, diagonal crease to lower left margin corner, pale fox mark below signature l. r., on cream laid paper with large margins. One of Gifford's most fascinating prints for it's bucholic but un romanticized depiction of American maritime industry in the second decade following the Civil War.