Lot 176: H. Hawley Lithograph of Penn Station, NY - circa 1910

Hughson Hawley (English/American, 1850-1936), Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York City: Seventh Avenue and Thirty-Second Street, looking towards Long Island, lithograph in colors, 1910, printed by Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, signed lower right, copyright 1910 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, exposed: 27 x 51.25 Inches, label and tag for Christie's sale 3755 June 30 2015 lot 121/2, Collection of Richard Mellon Scaife, flared walnut wood: 32.25 x 56.75 x 1.75 inches, Colored Lithograph. Philadelphia: Ketterlinus Lith. Co., 1910. A large color promotional print of Pennsylvania Station in New York City dated 1910, the year it was completed. The architecture, considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style, was designed by the architects McKim, Mead and White. The view was published as a print under the copyright of the Pennsylvania Railroad, presumably to promote the magnificent new structure. The highly detailed bird’s-eye view is signed in the print matrix by Hughson Hawley, the foremost American architectural illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th century (Parks, p. 9).

unexamined outside of frame, in apparently good condition, multiple folding creases with subsequent wrinkling, raising, and loss, especially near the outer edges, pinholes evenly distributed to outer extremities, a few areas of minor discoloration and staining, scraping and wear near the center region of the left most edge