Central Park Rear View of Terrace Near the Entrance at Corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty Ninth Street
D. Van Nostrand, 1866. Color lithograph. Sheet measures 9 x 12 inches. In good condition with light toning and foxing. New York: Van Nostrand, 1866. Rare view of Central park and proposed entrance from "Designs for the gateways of the southern entrances to the Central Park", by Richard M. Hunt. He was the first American to train at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and became an influential teacher as well as a practicing architect. Noted for his expansion of..... More