New York from Staten Island Ferry; a.k.a. New York Skyline; pl. #1 from Miniature Series

John Taylor Arms

The first image from John Taylor Arms' Miniature Series #1, this is a drypoint of the Manhattan skyline as seen from the deck of the Staten Island Ferry. The scene is finely composed to show the peaks and valleys of the famous horizon as it emerges from the fog. Arms misses nothing in this familiar view, even down to the drifts of steam emerging from the ships in the midground.

Though this impression is numbered by Arms as 20 of 35, the Fletcher catalogue lists only 20 impressions printed in 1917, with six more impressions pulled later, five in 1938 and one in 1946 - a total of 26 impressions. This impression is likely the last from the 1917 campaign, the final 15 of which were pulled by Frederick Reynolds.