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Engraved by James Smillie American
After Robert Walter Weir American
Publisher New York Mirror American
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A view of the the New York Lunatic Asylum, emphasizing its rural setting, with deer and bushes in the foreground.
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Title: Lunatic Asylum, New York (New York Mirror)
Engraver:
Engraved by James Smillie (American, Edinburgh 1807–1885 Poughkeepsie, New York)
Artist:
After Robert Walter Weir (American, New Rochelle, New York 1803–1889 New York)
Publisher:
New York Mirror (1823–1843)
Date: 1834
Medium: Steel engraving
Dimensions:
Image: 6 1/8 x 9 in. (15.5 x 22.9 cm)
Plate: 9 5/16 x 12 3/8 in. (23.6 x 31.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Accession Number: 24.90.1249
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