The Street — Design for a Poster

Dating to 1900-01, this well-known Stieglitz image shows horse-drawn Hansom cabs lined up along Fifth Ave. in New York City. The overall composition is framed by a horse at rest along 31th Street in lower foreground and bisected by the barren limbs and trunk a tree on the right third of the cityscape. A view of the general area by photographer Irving S. Underhill (1866-1937) taken around 1907 is described: This photo of Fifth Ave., looking northwest from 31st St., was taken about 1907. Old residential properties on and near northwest corner have been converted to commerce. At right, from 33rd to 34th Sts., (behind the street sign) stands world-famous hostelry the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. See the area today.

Tags

Cityscape Winter Roadways Horses Transportation Trees

Title

The Street — Design for a Poster

Photographer

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Atelier

Photochrome Engraving Company (New York City)

Year

1903

Dimensions

Image Dimensions17.6 x 13.3 | 30.2 x 20.8 cm Japanese Gampi paper

Support Dimensions13.7 x 18.0 cm white art paper, laid down on corner-glued gray art paper: 21.2 x 16.2 cm | 29.9 x 21.0 cm laid paper watermarked ENFIELD S. CO 1887

Print Notes

Photogravure published in Camera Work III, July, 1903; scattered foxing to secondary and tertiary supports outside image; glue stains on Gampi paper verso at u.l. and u.r. corners to first laid-down white paper support; faint water stain to broad lower right quadrant of Gampi plate and Enfield support.

Published

Greenough, Sarah, and Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set : the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 2002. The Street—Design for a Poster, 1900/1901, printed 1903, Key Set Number 266.