"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color on thick stiff cream wove

on thick stiff cream wove Murillo paper

or the print studio they were published by

to New York City early in the the last century

signed in pencil & titled in lower left margin

"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color on thick stiff cream woveEtching, 1879, as published in American Art Review, plate 8 5 8 x 5 7 8, image 6 7 8 x 4 7 8, diagonal crease to lower left margin corner, pale fox mark below signature l. r., on cream laid paper with large margins. One of Gifford's most fascinating prints for it's bucholic but un romanticized depiction of American maritime industry in the second decade following the Civil War.