St. Paul's, Broadway, N.Y.

About this work

You see a busy New York street corner in 1906. Tall buildings loom over horse-drawn carriages and early cars. A church with a tall steeple stands in the center. The scene is busy but calm. This is an etching, which means the artist scratched the image onto a metal plate, then filled it with ink. The lines are sharp and delicate, showing every detail of the city. The artist used drypoint here, a technique where a needle drags across the plate to raise a burr that holds extra ink for richer lines. Look up Mielatz, Charles Frederick William to see more of his city scenes.