New York: The Battery

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1927  

color etching & aquatint 

12 3/8 x 16 1/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

1 of 150  

titled, lower left; bears the red stamp F.P.C. for Friedl Pollak Collection; stamped verso: Made in Austria; titled in pencil a second time along the sheet edge in lower left 

 

ivory wove 

published 

 

PAKU113 

SOLD

This view shows the southern tip of Manhattan and the New York Harbor. The low building near the water is the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which was built between 1902 and 1907 by the federal government to house the duty collection operations for the port of New York. The Battery is named for the artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early history to protect the settlement.