New York, East Side II: Under the "El" a.k.a. New York: The East Side: Allen Street

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1928  

color etching & aquatint 

14 x 8 1/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

4/150; according to the annotation on the old mat there were approximately 35 impressions printed 

titled, lower left; bears the red stamp F.P.C. for Friedl Pollak Collection; stamped verso "Made in Austria"; old mat is inscribed: "printed appr. 35" 

Triton cat. 53;Dreiser, My City, illustration four 

ivory silk 

published 

artist 

PAKU106 

SOLD

In New York City, Allen Street runs through the neighborhood of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. In 1878, the city built an elevated railway over Allen Street and it was known as the Second Avenue Line or the "El."