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    "ocrText": "PPF 2253\nNEWMAN, HARRY SHAW COLD PRINT\nSHOP]\nBroks\nThe Old Print ShopInc.) Shop Inc.\nHarry Shaw Newman\nP.P. 22 F 3 5\nNew York.N.Y.\nFebruary 21, 1933.\nOn Memorandum, for Approval, to:\nHon. Franklin D. Roosevelt.\nyes\n6141 1 \"U. S. Sloop of War Kearsarge\", by Currier and Ives.\n6115 1\n\"\n!  t\n\"\n11\n11\n11\n11\nWe should like to present to Mr. Roosevelt whichever\nof the above prints he lacks as a memento of his visit.\n1 Battle of Red Bank\n$2.00\n1 Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh\n20.00\n1 U. S. Brig of War Somers.\n35.00\n1 U. S. Steam Frigate Princeton\n35.00\n1 \"A View of the Merchant Ship Planter\"\n30.00\n1 Cozzen's Dock, West Point\n40.00\n1\n1 Book of views\n75.00\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nP.P.F.\nWITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF\n2253\nThe Old Harry Print Shaw Newman ShopInc.) Shop\nld Print Shop Inc.\nHarry Shaw Newman\nNew York.N.Y.\nApril 27, 1933\nMiss M. A. Le Hand,\nSecretary to,\nThe Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nThe White House,\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Miss Le Hand:\nAs I promised Mr. Roosevelt when he so kindly gave me\nan interview recently, we are sending twelve copies of the\" Currier\nand Ives Rundle portrait of the President directly to him.\nIn a separate package we are sending six to you. One\nof these is for you, personally, one for Mr. McIntyre, and the other\nfour the President very kindly offered to autograph for Mr. Harry T.\nPeters, Mr. Rundle, the artist who drew the print, and me. I hope\nX it will not be too much trouble for you to bother with this, and I\ncertainly appreciate your kind co-operation which has attended my\ntwo meetings with the President.\nI hope that you will stop in to see us the next time you\nare in New York.\nYours\nvery\ntruly,\nReturned 5/31/33\ngdb\nPlain autographed\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nP.P.E.\n2253\nThe Old Print Shop Inc.\nHarry Shaw Newman\nNew York.N.Y.\nApril 27, 1933\nMiss M. A. Le Hand,\nSecretary to,\nThe Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nThe White House,\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Miss Le Hand:\nAs I promised Mr. Roosevelt when he SO kindly gave me\nan interview recently, we are sending twelve copies of the\" Currier\nand Ives Rundle portrait of the President directly to him.\nIn a separate package we are sending six to you. One\nof these is for you, personally, one for Mr. McIntyre, and the other\nfour the President very kindly offered to autograph for Mr. Harry T.\nPeters, Mr. Rundle, the artist who drew the print, and me. I hope\nX it will not be too much trouble for you to bother with this, and I\ncertainly appreciate your kind co-operation which has attended my\ntwo meetings with the President.\nI hope that you will stop in to see us the next time you\nare in New York.\nYours very truly,\nReturned 5/31/33 gdb\nPlain autographed\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nFin\nUN\nHOUSE\nP.P.F.\n2253\nApril 10, 1933.\nDear Mr. Newman:-\nWould it be possible\nfor you to bring the print down to\nshow the President on Friday, April\n14th, at twelve o'clock?\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. A. Le Hand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nLT\nNew York City, N. Y.\nAVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nFin\nP.P.F.\n2253\nThe Old Print Shop Inc.\nJUN THE RECEIVER WHITE 1933 HOUSE\nHarry Shaw Newman\nNew York.N.Y.\nJune 6, 1933\nThe Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nPresident of the United States,\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. President:\nAllow me to thank you most sincerely for your kindness\nin autographing the four copies of your portrait print.\nYou will be pleased to know that we have received much\nfavorable comment on this publication and that the print has enjoyed\na very good sale.\nWe are arranging to show at the Chicago Historical So-\nciety during July and August a group of one hundred large folio, and\nfifty small folio Currier and Ives from the collection of Mr. Harry\nT. Peters. It is well to have such an exhibition in Chicago so that\na new group and a very large one will become acquainted with these\ndelightful old prints.\nWe have been in active touch with Mr. John Wilbur Jen-\nkins, who is assembling for the Newport News Ship-building Company\nwhat he hopes will ultimately be the finest collection of Naval and\nMarine material in the country.\nAgain thanking you for your kind patronage we are,\nYours very truly,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc. so 150 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y.\nSUCCESSOR TO EDWARD GOTTSCHALK\nHARRY SHAW NEWMAN\nP.P.F. P. F.\nTEL. ASHLAND 4-3950\n3\n2253\naugust 10, 1933\nThe Hon. Frau klin D. Rooswelf\nHyde Park, Mr.\nCulture\nmr. President,\nallow we to thauh you for your\ncheck for the Eudicott print about Captu.\nIngrahauis Valor.\nd wish to offer you a very un.\nof\nusual poster. : 18\" (24\"\n\"Delano Life Reserving Coat t Vest Co.\na lithograph in colorsby sarong, Weagn\n+ Kuaph Co. C.1859 - Estalling the wirets\nof Delano life preserving farments.\nthis business was\nthe accompanying\nCLIPPER\nIN\nSTEAMER\nlocated at\nDISTRESS\nDISTRESS\nSkefch will\n256 Bway N.Y.C.\ndescription give a. better\nand the name\nSTEAMER\nT.A. DELANO\nthan I could\nBURNING\nappears-\ngive otherwise\nprice $2800\nou approval, of\nOCEAN BATHING\nSCENE\ncourse at\nyou request\nyour very trues,\nHarry than Newrung\n150 LEXINGTUN AVENUE\nAugust 17, 1933\nDear Mr. Newman:\nThe President asks me to thank you\nfor telling him about the poster and to tell\nyou that the man probably is no relation but\nhe would like very much to see it.\nVery truly yours,\nM. A. LeHAND\nPrivate Secretary\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nmwd\nNew York, N. Y.\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nThank him and\nIn as\nsay the Presedent is not\n2253\ninterested in this\nopIng\nM.L.\netter of\nApril ninth. I spoke to the President\nabout the two handmade maps to which you\n773\nrefer but he is not inter asted in them.\nYour interest in the matter is none the\nless appreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM.A. Le H/ND\nPrivate Secretary\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\n#\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, 1. Y.\nlb\nHSN:P\n15oLEXINGTONAVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nP.P.F. P.\n2253\nApril 18, 1934.\nMy dear Mr. Newman:\nMany thanks for your letter of\nApril ninth. I spoke to the President\nabout the two handmade maps to which you\nrefer but he is not interasted in them.\nx 773\nYour interest in the matter is none the\nless appreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. A. Le H/ND\nPrivate Secretary\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq., #\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\nlb\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nThe Old Harry Print Shaw Newman ShopIng.)\nNew York.N.Y.\nApril 9, 1934\nMiss Marguerite LeHand,\nSecretary to the President,\nThe Whitehouse,\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Miss LeHand:\nWe have just had sent in on memorandum two hand-\nmade maps, the first of the United States and the second of the\ntwo hemispheres, both the work of Elizabeth Roosevelt, one being\nsigned and dated November 4, 1812 and the other merely initialed,\nE. R.\nBoth are rather crude in execution, but colorful.\nThey are mounted on pieces of pine nearly an inch thick and are\nabout 17 by 21 inches.\nWe have secured these on the off chance that E. R.\nmay be one of the President's ancestors. I do not know exactly\nwhat the maps would nice cost us, but they would not go beyond $35.00\neach I think, and if of any possible to Mr. Roosevelt we should be\nglad to send them down on approval.\nI still hope to hear further from you about those\ntwo Currier and Ives Naval prints.\nYours very truly New\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\n.\nP.P.F. F!\nMarch 2, 1935.\n225-3\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq., x\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc., #\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York City, N. Y.\nMy dear Mr. Newman:-\nThe President would appreciate\nit very much if you would send him the follow-\ning items listed in your Special Price List\nof a Private Collection of Currier & Ives\nPrints of New York State:\nMILL COVE LAKE, NEAR PO'KEEPSIE ON\nTHE HUDSON\n$15.00\nKATZ-KILLS IN WINTER, BASTIAN FALLS . $10.00\nTHE DRIVE THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS\n$10.00\nXP.PJ450\nVery truly yours,\nM. A. Le Hand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\np.p.t. 2253 22\nJune 18, 1935.\nDear Mr. Newman:-\nIn reply to your letter of\nJune fifth, which I referred to Mr. Early\nwho handles matters of this kind, I am send-\ning you herewith his personal and confidential\nmemorandum to me which I think speaks for\nitself.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. A. Le Hand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\n(Enclosure)\nLICAN\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nHe\nJune 7, 1935.\nInc.\nTo Missy:\nJune 5, 1935\nSpeak to Steve about this and see\nwhat he thinks.\nF. D. R.\nbeen placed in an em-\nprint field who has\nnt Exchange. It is our\nibles ours, has caused\nrs, with consequent loss\nI situation through the\nence as to the continuous\neriod of years, since it\nGottschalk.\nhis patronage over a long\nom him that he has known\nP over twenty years would\nu can do so without im-\nbring this matter to his\nncerely\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nwashington\nCOPY\nJune 10, 1935.\nInc.\nPERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL\nMEMORANDUM FOR MISS LeHAND\nJune 5, 1935\nDear Missy:\nI think we need an excuse, something like\nan anniversary to be celebrated by the Old Print\nShop, in order that the President can justify the\nwriting of a letter. Otherwise he would become\ninvolved in the court trial by the Old Print Shop\nagainst a competitor.\n, been placed in an em-\nIt occurs to me that the Old Print Shop\nL print field who has\nmay be approaching an anniversary; that Mr. New-\nnt Exchange. It is our\nman might like to write the President and tell\nibles ours, has caused\nhim something of the history of the Shop and its\ners, with consequent loss\nplans to celebrate the (blank) anniversary of its\nfounding. Then, I think, the President very\nproperly could write.\n3 situation through the\nlence as to the continuous\neriod of years, since it\nGottschalk.\nS. T. E.\nhis patronage over a long\nrom him that he has known\n/ over twenty years would\nou can do so without im-\n) bring this matter to his\nincerely\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-395\nFAID\nThe Old Harry Print Shaw Newman Shop Inc.)\nNew York.N.Y.\nJune 5, 1935\nMiss A. Le Hand,\nSecretary to the President,\nThe White House,\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Miss Le Hand:\nDuring the past few months we have been placed in an em-\nbarrassing position by a new comer in the old print field who has\nestablished a shop which he calls The Old Print Exchange. It is our\nbelief that this name, which so closely resembles ours, has caused\nconfusion in the minds of prospective customers, with consequent loss\nof business to us.\nWe propose to ask relief from this situation through the\ncourts, and at that time we will present evidence as to the continuous\nexistence of The Old Print Shop over a long period of years, since it\nwas, in fact, founded in 1898 by the late E. Gottschalk.\nMr. Roosevelt has favored us with his patronage over a long\nperiod of time and I feel that a statement from him that he has known\nthis shop as The Old Print Shop for certainly over twenty years would\nbe of great value to us. If you feel that you can do so without im-\npropriety, perhaps you will be good enough to bring this matter to his\nattention, and in the meantime believe me,\nYours sincerely Newwern\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nMay 2, 1938\n63/18/38\nfile\nPrints\nRRF\nFebruary 9, 1937.\n2253\nOld Print Exchange,\n11 East 48th Street,\nno sold 657-\nNew York City,\nNew York.\nGentlemen:-\nWill you be good enough to send\nto the President the following items\nlisted in your Catalogue No. 2:\nNo. 424 - Hudson River\n$6.00\nNo. 427 - Hudson River\n6.00\nNo. 432 - Southern Part\n5.00\nNo. 657 - Navy Yard\n4.00\nNo. 660 - President's Levee : 3.50\nNo. 817 - Annapolis\n2.50\nNo. 851 - Charlestown\n2.50\nNo. 852 - View of the interior\nof U. S. Navy Yard.. 4.00\nNo. 853 - View showing launch-\ning of the U. S.\nSteamer Merrimac ... 3.00\nNo.1014 - Coxsackie\n5.00\nNo.1019 - Falls of the 9awkill.3.00\nNo.1057 - Charming Winter Scene\nof Shipyard\n2.50\nNo.1072 - Poughkeepsie\n2.00\nNo.1073 - View from College....2.50\nNo.1105 - West Point\n20.00\nNo.1582 - Bombardment\n5.00\nVery truly yours,\nxpp7223\nXPP7450\nMay 2, 1938\nMy dear Mr. Newman:\nThe President has asked me to thank\nyou for your letter of April fifth and to say\nthat some day he hopes to have an opportunity\nto visit your shop again.\nWhile the President very much appre-\nciates your courtesy in writing him about the\nPanorama of the Hudson River from New York to\nAlbany, he already has one.\nVery sincerely yours,\n1. A. LeHand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\nHarry S. Newman, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nek\nNew York, N. Y.\nNu V. werere\nX\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nadving\ncb\nzij.\nThe Old Harry Print Shaw Newman Shop Inc.\nNew York.N.Y.\nP.P.7.\nApril 5, 1938\nThe President,\n2253\nThe White House,\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Mr. President:\nWe should like to bring to your attention\nthe following item, which I judge to be scarce since I\nhave never seen or heard of it previously:\nPANORAMA OF THE HUDSON RIVER FROM NEW YORK\nTO ALBANY. Drawn from Nature and Engraved by William\nWade. New York: Wm. Wade 122 Broadway. Philadelphia:\nWm. Croome 1845. \" The size is 6 X 144 inches and it is\nfolded to go into an octavo size cover with which there\nis included 32 pages of descriptive text. It is in good\ncondition save for the fact that the binding is somewhat\nstained and worn. The price is $25.00. We should be\npleased to send it to you for inspection on approval if\nyou would like us to do so.\nWould it be too much to hope that you might\nbe able to make another visit here at the shop? We have\naccumulated a good deal of new material since your memo-\nrable visit in 1933. In particular I should like to show\nyou our pair of paintings by N. Pocock of two phases of\nthe Engagement Between the Constitution and the Java, which\nwe consider to be the finest pair of American Naval paint-\nings, without qualification.\nPerhaps it is presumptuous to even suggest\nyour visiting the shop, but I do SO with the thought that\nyou might find it pleasurable and a diversion from the\naffairs of state.\nLours very truly,\nX\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:P\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\ny\nNovember 18, 1938.\nMy dear Mr. Newman:-\nP.P.F.\nThank you so much for\n2253\nyour letter of November third. The\nPresident would like you to send him the\nsmall folio size lithograph in colors\nxpP7223\npublished by J. Baillie, THE U. S. FRIGATE\nHUDSON.\nVery truly yours,\nM. A. Le Hand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\n*\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\nHSN:S\nMEMO FOR MARY\nWill you look for this print in\nthe White House? It may be in the\nMonroe Room or outside the Monroe\nRoom or in the West Hall.\nG. G. T.\nSendish\nreturning from a Crince\nrint ShopIng. Shop\nlaw Newman\nwutha fair wind\nYork.N.Y.\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nFrom the Old Print Shop to tell you about\na lithograph in colors of The U.S. Frigate\nHudson - - - Price $30.00\nNovember 3, 1938\nWe have just secured a very pleasing\nsmall folio size lithograph in colors published by\nJ. Baillie, THE U. S. FRIGATE HUDSON.\nThis is one of those early prints in\nwhich the title is inset in the colored portion of the\nprint as if it were on a tablet instead of being in the\nmargin as usual. It is initialed \"E. K.\" on the lith-\nographic stone in the lower right corner.\nThe print is in good condition, though\nthe margins are narrow as usual. The price is $30.00.\nThis would seem to be of interest for the President's\nnaval collection, particularly so because the ship is\ncalled \"Hudson\", but it may well be that he already has\nit.\nThanking you for bringing it to his at-\ntention, I am\nYours very truly,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:S\nSendish\nThe Old Print ShopInc.) Shop\nHarry Shaw Newman\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE New York,N.Y. TELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\nNovember 3, 1938\nMiss Margaret Le Hand\nSecretary to the President\nThe White House\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Miss Le Hand:-\nWe have just secured a very pleasing\nsmall folio size lithograph in colors published by\nJ. Baillie, THE U. S. FRIGATE HUDSON.\nThis is one of those early prints in\nwhich the title is inset in the colored portion of the\nprint as if it were on a tablet instead of being in the\nmargin as usual. It is initialed \"E. K.\" on the lith-\nographic stone in the lower right corner.\nThe print is in good condition, though\nthe margins are narrow as usual. The price is $30.00.\nThis would seem to be of interest for the President's\nnaval collection, particularly so because the ship is\ncalled \"Hudson\", but it may well be that he already has\nit.\nThanking you for bringing it to his at-\ntention, I am\nYours very truly,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.\nHSN:S\nTHE WHITE \\\nNov 24 9 4]\nRECEIVE\nAquatints\nachid\nEngravings\nLithographs\nThe Old Print ShopIng.)\nMezzotints\nHarry Shaw Newman\n12/5\nEstablished 1898\n-\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nAmerican Paintings\nNew York,N.Y.\nTELEPHONE ASHLAND 4-3950\ncd\nbefore 1875\n-\nAdvertising\nArchery\nNovember 21, 1939\nAudubons\nAviation\nBaseball\nP.P.B.\nBirds\nBowling\nxlast\nThe Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt\nBoxing\nThe White House\n2253\nBull Fighting\nCaricatures\nWashington, D. C.\nClippers\nCock Fighting\nDear Sir:-\nCollege Views\nComics\nthey.\nCricket\n+\nis\nMiss Fanny Borden, Librarian at Vassar Col-\nCurrier & Ives\nlege, has kindly suggested that I bring to your\nDancing\nattention the original oil painting signed S. M.\nFarming\nFires\nEvans, a view of Poughkeepsie about 1855, photo-\nFishing\ngraph of which is enclosed. The canvas size is 29\nFlowers\nX 44\" and the price is $225.00.\nFootball\nFox Hunting\nFruits\nIt is a colorful painting, and while the ar-\nGames\ntist was no great master, he painted with that sin-\nGenre\ncerity and vigor which have made American primi-\nHawking\nHistorical\ntives so dear to the present school of collectors.\nHorse Racing\nHumorous\nIt would be no trouble to send this painting\nLegal Prints\nto you on approval, either at the White House or at\nMaps\nMarines\nHyde Park, and while it is now unframed, the price\nMedical Prints\nincludes a suitable frame, probably in silver gilt.\nMexican War\nMilitary\nMississippi River\nWe might mention in passing that we secured\nMusic\nlast spring and loaned to Colonel Leath for his ex-\nNaval\nhibition at the House of History, a group of six\nNew York City\nNew York State\noriginal water color paintings by W. G. Wall. These\nPortraits\nare of West Point, the town of Hudson and four other\nRailroads\nupper Hudson River views. It would be a pleasure to\nRowing\nsend these along on approval too, if you would like\nSentimental\nShooting\nto see them.\nSilhouettes\nSkating\nYours very truly\nSporting\nSteamships\nTemperance\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP INC.\nTennis\nTown Views\nTrade Cards\nTrotting\nTurf\nHSN:S\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYachting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nwashington\nDecember 5, 1939.\nMEMORANDUM FOR\nMISS HELEN W. REYNOLDS\nXPI.7 X\n234\nHave you ever seen this\npicture before?\nF. D. R.\n(Miss Helen Wilkinson Reynolds,\n56 Grand Avenue, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.\nPhotograph of what seems to be a very\nold print along a shore line with old\nsteamships and sailing vessels alongside.)\nPhotograph referred to in attached letter\nfrom The Old Print Shop, Harry Shaw Newman\nVons\n****\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\ncd\nTurf\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYachting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nPicture has been stripped for mailing as\nper the President's Memo. Leave carbon with\nthis file.\n9.\nany more pictures.\nAUG vau FRAUD smop, INC. ,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\ncd\nTurf\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYachting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nwashington\nDecember 5, 1939.\nPrepare note thanking him\nand say the President is not\nbuying any more pictures.\nAUG van is $400 umop, ,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\ncd\nrue\nTurf\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYachting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nShop\nDecember 5, 1939\nMy dear Mr. Newman:\nThe President asks me to acknowledge\nyour letter of November twenty-first, with the\nenclosed photograph of the oil painting, and to\nthank you ever so much for your kind offer to\nsend, on approval, this painting along with the\nother group of paintings you mention. He does\nnot wish to avail himself of your suggestion,\nhowever, as he is not buying any more pictures.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. A. LeHand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\ncd\nweb\nTUTT\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYachting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nAquatints\nglask\" cmed. A soshs buy thems Them\nEngravings\nLithographs\nMezzotints\nhe\nbut\nThe Old Print Shop Inc.\nHarry Shaw Newman\nEstablished 1898\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nNew York. N.Y.\nJUL\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE\nTELEPHON\n55AM\nND\n4-3950\nAmerican Paintings\nbefore 1875\n39\nRECEIVED\n-\nAdvertising\nJuly 13, 1939\nArchery\nAudubons\nAviation\nBaseball\nThe Hon. Franklin Delano Roosevelt\np.p.7.\nBirds\nThe White House\nBowling\nBoxing\nWashington, D. C.\nBull Fighting\n2253\nCaricatures\nDear Sir:-\nClippers\nCock Fighting\nCollege Views\nWe have just secured six original water\nComics\ncolor paintings of Hudson River scenes which, though\nPP7,\nCricket\nunsigned, we believe to be the work of William G.\nCurrier & Ives\nWall. The subjects are as follows -\n4851\nDancing\nFarming\nFires\nWest Point From the North\nFishing\nThe Town of Hudson\nFlowers\nFootball\nView Near Hudson\nFox Hunting\nView Near Fort Montgomery\nFruits\nView Near Fort Edward\nGames\nGenre\none as yet unidentified view\nHawking\nHistorical\nAll six measure 14 X 21\". They are most attractively\nHorse Racing\nHumorous\npainted and all of very pleasing coloring. Our reason\nLegal Prints\nfor attributing them to William G. Wall in addition to\nMaps\ntheir being definitely of his period, is that they are\nMarines\nMedical Prints\nof exactly the same technique and coloring as he used\nMexican War\nin that fine large water color view of New York which\nMilitary\nis on exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York,\nMississippi River\nloaned by E. C. Arnold.\nMusic\nNaval\nNew York City\nWe are pleased to offer you these six draw-\nNew York State\nings at a special price of $600.00, and we should be\nPortraits\nRailroads\npleased to send them to you on approval if you would\nRowing\nlike to see them.\nSentimental\nShooting\nYours very truly\nSilhouettes\nSkating\nSporting\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, INC.\nSteamships\nTemperance\nTennis\nTown Views\nHSN:S\nTrade Cards\nTrotting\nTurf\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYachting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nJuly 20, 1939\nMy dear Mr. Newman:\nReplying to your letter of July thir-\nteenth, the President asks me to thank you\nheartily for your courtesy in letting him\nknow about the water color paintings which\nyou have for sale.\nHe does indeed wish that he could\nbuy them, but feels that he cannot afford\nto do so.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. A. LeHand\nPRIVATE SECRETARY\nCWS\nHarry Shaw Newman, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n150 Lexington Avenue,\nNew York, N. Y.\nTemperance\nTennis\nTown Views\nTrade Cards\nTrotting\nTurf\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYechting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nAquatints\nEngravings\nLithographs\nThe Old Print Shop Inc.\nMezzotints\nHarry Shaw Newman\nEstablished 1898\n-\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE New York. 16.NY. TELEPHONE ASHLAND 4.3950\nAmerican Paintings\nbefore 1875\nI\nMarch 22, 1945\nAdvertising\nArchery\nAudubons\npm7,\nAviation\nBaseball\nBirds\n2253\nBowling\nBoxing\nBull Fighting\nMiss Grace G. Tully\nCaricatures\nThe White House\nClippers\nWashington, D.C.\nCock Fighting\nCollege Views\nComics\nDear Miss Tully,\nCricket\nCurrier & Ives\nMuch to my regret I have to tell\nDancing\nFarming\nyou that we are unable to honor the Presi-\nFires\ndent's order for item #13, lithograph hand-\nFishing\ncolored, of the MARY POWELL, as pictured\nFlowers\nand described in our current PORTFOLIO.\nFootball\nFox Hunting\nUnfortunately we had sold and delivered\nFruits\nthis print several days before we received\nGames\nyour letter ordering it.\nGenre\nHawking\nHistorical\nI'll watch out carefully for another\nHorse Racing\nimpression and should one appear on the mar-\nHumorous\nLegal Prints\nket, will advise you, but of course without\nMaps\nany obligation on the part of the President.\nMarines\nMedical Prints\nIt has been quite a while since we\nMexican War\nreceived an order from the White House, and\nMilitary\nMississippi River\nwe are therefore particularly disappointed\nMusic\nat being unable to take care of this one.\nNaval\nNew York City\nNew York State\nYours very truly,\nPortraits\nRailroads\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, INC.\nRowing\nSentimental\nShooting\nSilhouettes\nSkating\nHSN:L\nSporting\nSteamships\nTemperance\nTennis\nTown Views\nTrade Cards\nTrotting\nTurf\nValentines\nViews-American\nViews-English\nYechting\nWhaling\nWinter Scenes\nmother\nP.P.F\nTHE WHITE house\nWASHINGTON\nP.P.F.\nMarch 19, 1945.\nMr. Harry Shaw Newman\n2253\nThe Old Print Shop\n150 Lexington Ave. at 30th St.\nNew York, N. Y.\nDear Mr. Newman:\n, containing the prin\nd up and fixed at th\n;ake the hanging of t\nWill you be good enough to\nsend to the President Item No. 13 --\nTHE MARY POWELL as \"Queen of the Hidson\"\nLithograph colored by hand -- priced\nat $75.00?\nThank you.\nVery truly yours,\nGrace G. Tully\nPrivate Secretary\nP.P.F\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\n163\nP.P.F.\n2253\ncontaining the prints,\nup and fixed at their\nke the hanging of these\nBUILDING CASTLES.\n14. BUILDING CASTLES. From Life in Camp, an excessively\nscarce series of small lithographs after Winslow Homer\npublished by L. Prang, Boston, 1864. 4½ by 23/8 inches.\nIn original cardboard frame. Series of seventeen, $85.\nLIFE IN CAMP, A SCARCE SET AFTER HOMER\nTHE Old Print Shop has acquired a very rare group of small\nlithographs after Winslow Homer called Life in Camp which\nwere published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston in 1864. They\nhave come to us from an owner who received them as a gift\nfrom Mr. Louis Prang. Martha Lemon Schneider gives the\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\n165\n164\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nfollowing description of them: \"These lithographs were\ngiven to me by Mr. Louis Prang in 1865 when on a visit to\nhis house in Boston. Many years afterwards I met Mr. Prang\nin Washington and I told him that I still had the pictures\nhe had given to me when I was a little girl. He asked to\nsee them and I brought them out for his inspection. He\nwas surprised that I had the series SO complete, as he did\nnot think, outside of his own collection, there was another\nset in existence. He autographed one for me.\nThe\nsubject which Prang autographed is entitled Upset his Coffee\nand is representative of the general tone of the series which\nstrikes a human and often humorous note.\nLloyd Goodrich, who is preparing a catalogue raisonné\nof the work of Winslow Homer, has kindly informed us that\na complete series of Life in Camp consists of twenty-four\nand that the Boston Public Library has one of the very few\nof these. It is contained in two envelopes of twelve sub-\njects each, bearing the title and the publisher's name and\ndate 1864.\nIn addition to those illustrated we have: The Guard House;\nA Deserter; Late for Roll Call; An Unwelcome Visit; Water\nCall; The Girl he Left Behind Him; Stuck in the Mud;\nFording; Hard Tack; Drummer; A Shell is Coming; Sur-\ngeon's Call; Good-Bye; Upset his Coffee; Riding on a Rail.\nTOSSING IN A BLANKET.\nThe reason Homer's sketches of the Civil War have lived\nwhile the work of other war artists of his day have been for-\ngotten is that he broke through the lifeless conventions of\nhis time and drew real soldiers. As Mr. Goodrich writes\n15. TOSSING IN A BLANKET. After Winslow Homer. Origi-\nin his recently published book on Winslow Homer: \"His\nnally a presentation from Louis L. Prang, publisher of the\nseries; one is autographed by Prang. Remaining titles\nsoldiers were ordinary enough fellows, fond of sports and\nlisted in text. Series of seventeen, $85.\nhorse play, always hungry and thirsty, continually in trouble.\nof the Potomac while it was being drilled by McClellan.\nThey displayed little martial spirit and the artist took a sly\nIn the spring of 1862, he saw a little more action at the\nsoldier delight in showing the human side triumphing over the\ntime of the offensive against Richmond and in 1863-64 he\nHomer's first visit to the front occurred in\nmade further sketches to work up in his New York studio.\nOctober 1861 when he had a few weeks with the army\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\n167\n166\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nAUTOCRAT OF THE AIR\nTHE humming bird can be described by an extraordinary\nnumber of superlatives. The smallest of all birds, it belongs\nto the largest family, numbering 638 kinds. Considering\nits size, it is the fiercest of all, will attack a hawk or eagle,\nand striking at the eyes with its bayonet of a bill, can put\neven the latter to flight. When it feeds on the wing and\n17. THE JACOBIN HUM-\nMING BIRD. From\nsuddenly darts backward in a line of mathematical pre-\nGould's Monograph of\ncision, or moves with equal ease up and sideways, then with\nthe Trochilidea. The\nname for humming-\nthe drop of a plummet, downward again, it is performing\nbirds in Spanish is\na feat possible to it alone among all birds, a feat which is\n\"jewel lances,\" and the\nPeruvians call them\nthe basis of the movements in the \"pendulum dance\" of\n\"tresses of the day\nstar.\" Natives of Cen-\nthe male. In flight it is too fast for the eye to follow, main-\ntral and South Amer-\nica, they range as far\nnorth as Alaska, but\nonly one, the ruby\nthroat, comes east of\nthe Mississippi. Litho-\ngraph colored by hand.\n211/2 by 14 inches. $35.\nOther plates are priced\nat $12, $15, $20, and\n$25.\n16. From a complete\nset of the five volumes,\ncontaining 360 plates,\ntaining a speed of a mile a minute, and in migration, crosses\nof John Gould's HUM-\nthe Gulf of Mexico without a stop.\nMING BIRDS or MONO-\nGRAPH OF THE TROCHILI-\nDAE, published from\nIts jeweled plumage may be equaled but not surpassed,\n1849 to 1861. This\nwhile the variety of markings makes it a worthy subject for\nplate represents the St.\nthe artist-naturalist. The prolific John Gould, who is re-\nDomingo Mango.\nOthers range through\nsponsible for close to three thousand plates of birds and\nthe remarkable forms\nof the raquet tailed va-\nanimals, has delineated 360 plates in the five volumes of his\nrieties, the wood stars,\nspear tails, the hermits,\nMonograph on the Trochilidae, a set of which has just\npuff legs, lance bills,\narrived from England and gives us an opportunity to offer\nand hill stars, etc. On\nstone by H. C. Richter.\na wide selection for pairs and larger groups. The exotic\nPrinted by Hullmandel\n& Walton. 211/2 by\ntropical flowers in the backgrounds make the plates addi-\n14 inches. $35.\ntionally attractive.\nOther prints are priced\n$12, $15, $20, $25 each.\nThe\nOLD PRINT SHOP\nPORTFOLIO\nINTERIOR OF THE JOHN HOWARD PAYNE HOUSE AT LONG ISLAND.\nSigned ing an and interior dated by J. M. Falconer, 1880. One of EAST a pair, HAMPTON, the other also show-\nPair, $225. view. Oil on canvas, 13 by 18 inches. Framed in gilt lacquer.\nTHE FIRST HOME, SWEET HOME\nWE HAVE recently acquired a pair of paintings by Falconer\nshowing interiors of the John Howard Payne House at\nEast Hampton Long Island. This house, which belonged\nto the author of Home, Sweet Home, is now owned by the\nvillage of East Hampton. Two other paintings by Falconer\nof the Payne house, an interior and an exterior, belong to\nthe Long Island Historical Society, which also has other\nworks in his group of historic houses. According to Apple-\nton's biographical dictionary, he also painted The House\nwhere the Declaration of Independence was Written; Robert\nFulton's House in Philadelphia; and The William Penn\nMansion.\nJohn M. Falconer was born in Edinburgh in 1820 and\ncame to this country at sixteen. He was made an honorary\nJESSIE FREMONT, a portrait of the heroine of Immortal Wife. Pub-\nlished in 1856, the year in which John Fremont was a Presidential\nmember of the Academy in 1856.\ncandidate. Page 160.\nVOLUME IV\nMARCH, 1945\nNUMBER 7\nThe OLD PRINT SHOP\nHarry Shaw Newman\nESTABLISHED\nTELEPHONE\n1898\nASHLAND 4 -3950\n150 Lexington Ave. at 30th St., New York\nPORTFOLIO\nfor MARCH, 1945\nVOLUME IV\nEdited by HELEN COMSTOCK\nNUMBER 7\nTo facilitate the handling of mail in war-time, we would appreciate prompt\nnotice of change of address. Readers are invited to send names of persons who\nLA!!\nBOOK\nare interested in buying old prints and therefore in receiving THE PORTFOLIO.\nAND\nWALL STREET IN 1820\nIF an artist were to stand today at Wall Street and Broad,\nin the same spot occupied by the painter in 1820 whose\ndesign is the source of the unusual wall panel opposite, he\nwould have to draw the New York Stock Exchange standing\non the site occupied by the building at the left with the\nconspicuous sign of Stephen Gould's Law Book and Stationery\nStore. All that he would find today of the original scene\nwould be Trinity Church, and even that would not be the\nsame structure, for the second Trinity is seen in this view,\nVIEW OF WALL STREET, TRINITY CHURCH AND THE PRESBYTERIAN MEETING\nbuilt in 1788 and demolished in 1839.\nHOUSE IN 1820. A large wall panel in tempera based on a painting signed\nand dated by J. H. Jenny, 1820, which was formerly in the Hewitt collec-\nOur large wall panel is an exceptional piece of iconography\ntion. The site at the left is now occupied by the New York Stock\nExchange. Early nineteenth century. Artist unknown. Tempera on paper\nand decoration and we can think of no more handsome back-\nmounted on canvas. 75 by 54 inches. $1200.\nground for American Federal furniture. It is painted in\ntempera on paper, mounted on canvas, and has evidently\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nnever been glued to a wall as a wall paper, but has been\ntreated from the first as a wall panel.\nThe origin of the design will be immediately recognized\nby students of New York views as based on a very important\npainting recorded in Stokes' Iconography of Manhattan\nIsland (Vol. III, Plate 16) while its authorship was still\nunknown. Later cleaning revealed a signature which was\nillustrated in the catalogue of the Erskine Hewitt collection\nwhen it came up at auction in 1938 and brought the note-\nworthy price of $13,500. The signature could be read as\nJ. H. Jenny or Yenny, and the date was 1820. A \"Mr.\nYenni\" is mentioned by Dunlap as a Swiss artist who did\nNew York street views and went with Commodore Stewart\nas a draughtsman to the Pacific Ocean. The name of Henry\n1. ORIGINAL DRAWING by William Blake for America, a Prophecy, published in\nJenni is in the New York directory for 1820-1821. Thieme-\n1793, a folio of twenty pages of dithyrambic verse. This drawing was in the\ncollection of Professor Charles Edwin West, which was sold at the American\nBecker records a Johann Heinrich Jenny, the last form of the\nArt Association in 1901, No. 783 of Catalogue of Old Master Drawings. On\nname being correct, according to the Frick Art Reference\ndark blue paper, in India ink, washed with red and brown. Gilchrist, I.,\npp. 110, 113. 65/8 by 103/4 inches. Framed. $400.\nLibrary.\nIt is interesting to compare this view with a very similar\namong the finest Blake ever produced. America appears\nbut horizontal view of Wall Street in a lithograph which\nin both colored and uncolored copies, the latter being, as\nStokes says was issued about 1834, although the view was\na rule, in black or blue and white.\ndrawn about 1829. This was apparently intended as a sum-\nmer board for a fireplace and an example is on view at the\nOur drawing shows the figure of a man with hands clasped\nMusuem of the City of New York.\nbehind his head, falling through space into flames. In the\ncompleted design it forms the lower left portion of a page\nAN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY WILLIAM BLAKE\nbeginning with the words:\nTHE Old Print Shop has recently acquired an original draw-\n\"Albion's angels stood beside the stone of night and saw\ning by William Blake for America, a Prophecy, which ap-\nthe terror like a comet, Or more like the planet red.\"\npeared in 1793 when its author was thirty-six years old.\nThe right side is balanced by a similar flame motif and in\nAmerica is a folio of twenty pages of dithyrambic verse in\nbetween is one of Blake's inimitable serpents, coiled and\nBlake's most mystical mood. The subject was the American\nspringing upward.\nRevolution and among the personages incongruously intro-\nBlake's individual manner of working, of combining mar-\nduced are Orc, Urthona, Enitharmon, Washington, Franklin,\nginal designs with the text which was engraved on the plate\nPaine, and the Angels of Albion. While the literary value\nwith the rest of the design, was created by him in order to\nof the work is not great, the drawings are powerful and\nmake it possible for him as a poor man to publish his works.\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\n151\n150\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nthe\nAlsothe\nLord\naccepted\nJob\nEvery one also gave him a piece of Money\nAndmy Servant Job shall pray lor you\nAndilie Lord turned the captivity of lob be prayed for his Friends\nus ***** low estate\nMerry endureth forever\n3. EVERY ONE ALSO GAVE HIM A PIECE OF MONEY. No. 19 of\n2. AND MY SERVANT JOB SHALL PRAY FOR YOU. No. 18 of the\nthe Inventions for the Book of Job. The second of four\nInventions for the Book of Job. W. Blake inv. & sculpt.\nengravings for Job now in the collection of The Old Print\nPublished\nMarch 8, 1835, by Will Blake, No. 3 Fountain\nShop, the others being No. 9, Then a Spirit passed before\nCourt, Strand. Proof. 7½ by 55/8 inches plus margins. En-\nmy face; and No. 13, Then the Lord answered Job out of\ngraving. Group of four, $250.\nthe Whirlwind. 7½ by 55/8 inches plus margins. Proof.\nEngraving. Group of four, $250.\nHe and his beloved Catherine were living in great poverty\nwere engraved. The next morning the faithful Catherine\nand he had found that his career as a designer and en-\nwent shopping with what remained of their small store of\ngraver had not brought any financial returns, while his\ncash and bought the necessary materials, Alexander Gil-\nbrief partnership with James Parker had also come to an\nchrist, in his Life of William Blake, writes: \"The verse\nend. He had written his Songs of Innocence but there was\nwas written and the designs and marginal embellishments\nno publisher for them, and while he could make the designs\noutlined on the copper with an impervious liquid, prob-\nand print them, he could not be his own compositor. In\nably the ordinary stopping out varnish of engravers, then all\na dream, his dead brother Robert showed him how he\nthe white part or lights, the remainder of the plate that is,\nmight work with plates on which both words and designs\nwere eaten away with aquafortis or another acid so that the\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\noutline of letters and design was left prominent as in stero-\ntype.\" He printed his plates in any tint which would prove\nto be a satisfactory ground color and finished them by hand.\nBlake's pages are unlike anything else in the whole range\nof graphic art. We have a beautiful example in his late work,\nInventions for the Book of Job, which was executed between\n1823 and 1825, or when he was between the ages of 66 and\n4. WATERCOLOR COPY OF VITTORE CARPACCIO'S St. George and the Dragon in a\ndecorative, wide gold tooled Renaissance style frame. 26 by 501/2 inches\n68. His patron, Butts, had acquired as his last purchase from\noverall. $150.\nBlake twenty-one water colors illustrating the story of Job.\nBlake was again in great poverty and no more patronage\nCARPACCIO'S ST. GEORGE IN A WATER COLOR COPY\nseemed to be forthcoming. He might at this time, says\nON the walls of the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni\nGilchrist, have been compelled to make his living by engrav-\nin Venice is the greatest of all conceptions of St. George,\ning some of Morland's sporting scenes had it not been for\nthe warrior saint of Cappadocia, delivering the Princess\nthe fact that John Linnell saw the drawings for Job owned\nMargaret from the dragon. It was painted by Vittore Car-\nby Butts and commissioned Blake to engrave them. The\npaccio about 1526, and is one of his two great works for the\ndesigns for Job show the result of his having been influenced\nScuola, the other representing St. Jerome. So detailed is\nat the time by the Italian Rennaissance engravers.\nthe figure of St. George that it seems we must have an actual\nFour of the engravings for Job have recently entered the\nportrait of a knight Carpaccio may have seen at a tourney.\ncollection of The Old Print Shop. These are numbers 9, 13,\nHis sword is the finest example of Venetian workmanship,\n18 and 19. The last two are illustrated here, showing the\nand the trappings of his horse are of great magnificance.\nThe Old Print Shop has just acquired an old water color\nscenes No. in which the great drama of Job is brought to an end.\ntells 9 illustrates the scene in which Eliphaz the Temanite\npainting of Carpaccio's St. George in a Rennaissance style\nof what was revealed to him in the visions of the night-\nframe, which makes an attractive decoration, its faithfulness\nstood Then a spirit passed before my face, the hair of my flesh\nto the original making it also of value as a record.\nNo. up. This is one of the finest designs in the series.\nSt. George lived in the time of the persecution of the\n13 illustrates the moment after Job has had the temerity\nChristians under Diocletian and Maximian in the third\nto defy his Maker-Then the Lord answered Job out of the\ncentury A.D. He served in the Roman army with the rank\nwhirlwind. No. 18-And my servant Job shall pray for you,\nof tribune. The adventure which always represents him in\nillustrated here, illustrates beautifully the use of the line\nart occurred in Libya near the town of Silena, where a dragon\nand method, while his power in suggesting the elements of light\nhad long prayed upon the inhabitants of the city, who were\nand fire is at its height. In No. 19, the trials of Job are over\noffering to him their youths and maidens chosen by lot, in\norder that the rest might escape death. The choice had\npeace in and contentment have come to him again in the\nof his friends.\nscene which he sits with his wife receiving the offerings\nfallen upon the princess Margaret when St. George arrived,\nwho saved her by killing the dragon at one blow.\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\n155\n150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nFROM THE PILLORY\nrarest of American caricatures was\nHurd in Boston in 1762, entitled\nhe\nPillory.\nLetter of Tuesday, March 18, 1762,\nREPORTAL\nTHE\n\"At the Superior Court held here last\nudson, having been convicted on four\nSETH\nOF\ncounterfeiting the Province treasurer's\nHOLDER\nTHE\nSTIOTHOJON\nbe set in the pillory one hour, to\nto suffer one year's imprison-\nas a fine to the King.\nHurd's\nrare and this is the first impression\nThe so-called \"Dr.\" Hudson was a\nH-df-n's SPEECH from the Pillory.\nhad lived in Marlboro and West\nThere HOW his brawny Back is dripping\nWHAT mean thefe Crouds, this Noife and Roar!\nye ne'er fee a Rogue before?\nQuite callous grown with often whipping.\nstown. At one time he was in com-\nAre Villains then a Sight fo rare,\nIn vain you wear your Whip Cord outs\nTo make you prefs and gape and flare\nYou'l ne er reclaim that Rogue P flout\nFort Massachusetts (1757), but his\nCome forward all who look to fine,\nTo make him honeft, take my Word,\nWith Gain as illy got as mine\nYou mult apply bigger Cord.\nStep up-you'l loon reverfe the Show\nalready doubtful for he was com-\nThe Croud above, and for below.\nNow all ye who behold this Sight,\nWilliams, to give up his position.\nWell-for my Roguery here I fland,\nThat ye may get fome profit by's\nA Spectacle to all the Land\nKeep always in your Mind, I pray,\nThefe few Words that 1 have to lays\nHigh elevated on this Stage,\nHowe, was born in Sudbury but\nThe greated Villain of the Age.\nFollow my Steps and you may be\nMy Crimes have been both great and many,\nIn Time, perhaps, advanc'd like me ;\nEqual'd by very few, if any\nOr, like my fellow Lab'rer HOW,\nNew Hampshire.\nAnd for the Mifchiefs 1 have done\nYou'l get at leaft 1 Poft below!\nput this wooden Neckcloth on.\n30-1777), the son of Jacob Hurd the\nSold by N. HURD, near the Exchange, and at the Heart and Crown in Cornhilly Byfon,\neven better known as a silversmith\nediately issued a print from his shop\nhas shown Hudson in the pillory\nhe spectators, while Howe is taking\nto receiving the required number\nhe has introduced the portraits of\n5. HUDSON'S SPEECH FROM THE PILLORY. Engraved and published by Nathaniel\nHurd, Boston, 1762. Engraving colored by hand. TO by 73/4 inches. $400.\nHudson's profile appears in a medal-\nthe design; around it are the words.\ntrue profile of the notorious doctor.\"\n\"There How his brawny back is stripping\nis drawn halfway from its scabbard.\nQuite callous grown with often whipping.\nIn vain you wear your Whip-Cord out,\nYou'd ne'er reclaim that Rogue SO stout.\nversified speech is not identified. Its\nTo make him honest, take my word,\nvery well in the third verse:\nYou must apply a bigger Cord.\"\n8 and 9. AUTUMN and\nWINTER. J. L. Rugen-\n6 and 7. SPRING and\ndas SC. et excudit.\nSUMMER from a set of\nJohann Philippe Haid\nThe Four Seasons. An\ninv. et del. Undated,\nunusual setting in the\nbut in style about the\nRococo style for the\nmiddle of the eigh-\ntheme that two hearts\nteenth century. With\nmay beat as one in any\nthe exception of the\nseason. The coloring is\npeasant figures in the\nbrilliant and the rock-\nwine press design, il-\nand scroll-work motifs,\nlustrating Autumn, the\nwhich are the basis of\nsubjects have the air\nthe style rocaille, pro-\nof the typical Rococo\nvide a decorative\nfêtes galantes. Engrav-\nDer\nFrühling\nVer:\nframework for figures\nings colored by hand.\nPhone\nin the costume of the\n12 by 73/4 inches plus\nDer Harost\nAutumnus\nVost\nLouis XV period. $125\nmargins. Set of four,\narea\nfor set of four.\n$125.\non\n158\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\n159\nERRATUM\nIN the notice of the death of I. N. Phelps Stokes which\nappeared in The Portfolio for January, 1945, it was incor-\nrectly stated that Mr. Stokes presented St. Paul's Chapel,\nwhich he designed, to Columbia University. The Chapel was\nactually the gift of his aunts, the Misses Olivia and Caroline\nPhelps Stokes.\nA LINCOLN ENGRAVING AND A ROGERS GROUP\nWHILE walking across Union Square one evening late in\n1863 Frederick B. Carpenter found himself thinking that it\nwould be a valuable contribution to historical painting to\nportray the scene of the Cabinet meeting at which Lincoln\nfirst read the Emancipation Proclamation, which had gone\n11. Rogers' Group, the COUNCIL OF WAR, showing Lincoln\nbetween Grant and Stanton. Historical subjects were seldom\nmodelled by John Rogers, whose sentimental and humorous\nsubjects occupy a unique position in nineteenth century art.\nPlaster, parchment colored. Height 24 inches. $125.\ninto effect in January of that year and was its most important\nevent. Carpenter had already painted two former presi-\n10. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Fine proof before letters of Alexander\nHay Ritchie's engraving after the first state of Francis Bicknell Carpenter's\ndents and he wanted very much to paint Lincoln. The\npainting, now at the Capitol. The cabinet members are, from left to right:\nformalities of introduction took a few months and it was\nEdwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Salmon P. Chase, Treasury; William H.\nSeward, seated in front at right, Secretary of State; Gideon Welles, Navy, seated\nnot until February, 1864, that Carpenter was actually in\non far side of table (Lincoln said his long white beard always made him think\nLincoln's presence. Carpenter was given the state dining\nof Neptune); Caleb B. Smith, Interior; and Montgomery Blair, Post Master\nGeneral, both standing. At extreme right, seated, Edward Bates, Attorney\nroom as a studio and he set to work to make a series of\nGeneral. Engraving, black and white. 211/4 by 321/2 inches plus margins. $75.\nportraits of each member of the Cabinet as well as of Lincoln,\n160\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP, 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\n161\nPORTFOLIO FOR MARCH, 1945\nalso a careful sketch of the room in which the meeting\nLANDMARK OF MONMOUTH COUNTY\noccurred. In his Six Months at the White House, Carpenter\nhas given an intimate account of Lincoln. The President\nSo completely has the old Tennent parsonage on the battle\nfield of Monmouth been obliterated that recently when the\nwould come at the end of the day to see what progress had\nbeen made. \"He would often bring with him persons of\nUnited States Department of Agriculture wished to deter-\nmine its exact location it was necessary to trace deeds and\nnote who had called during the day or evening, and sitting\ndown upon the large table used on state occasions where\neven to take aerial views in order to determine approximately\nhe could swing his long legs, he would comment upon the\nwhere it stood. According to E. Marie Becker, who was\ndifferent characters of the Cabinet, slyly alluding to the\nformerly with the Monmouth County Historical Associa-\nantagonisms of two or three of them, and the presidential\ntion, it has been determined that the Tennent parsonage\naspirations of others, winding up with, 'Mrs. Lincoln says\nstood on the Applegate Farm. In the year 1859, the much\nthis is Mr. Carpenter's Happy Family'.\"\nscarred building was still standing and a lithograph was\nAs Carpenter proceeded he made various changes in his\npublished by William S. Potter of Freehold, the lithographer\ncanvas, and in its final form it represents the signing, not the\nbeing Charles Currier, who was the brother of Nathaniel\nfirst reading, of the Proclamation. While it was still in its\nCurrier. Charles Currier worked for the firm of Currier &\nearlier form. Ritchie made the engraving in our collection.\nIves but it is rare that his name appears on a plate.\nThe Old Print Shop has another Lincoln item of interest\nThe Battle of Monmouth occurred June 28, 1778.\nin the Rogers Group entitled Council of War, showing\nLincoln between Grant and Stanton. The many types of\ngroups, sentimental, humorous, domestic, which went out\nfrom 212 Fifth Avenue where Rogers had his headquarters\nwere described in his own day as having \"caught the spirit\nof a social age.\" Council of War is one of his rare historical\nsubjects, and like all of Rogers designs, succeeds in present-\ning its story with clarity and just the right suggestion of mood.\nThe Cover-Jessie Benton Fremont, the Immortal Wife\nof Irving Stone's best seller, looking much more sedate\nthan when she called on Lincoln in the lawn dress in which\nshe had just made a railroad journey across the country.\nThis lithograph, after a photograph by S. Root, is by Leo-\npold Grozelius. Printed by J. H. Bufford. 141/4 by 11 inches.\nUncolored. $15.\n12. THE OLD TENNENT PARSONAGE; ON MONMOUTH BATTLE FIELD. 1859. Erected\n1706. Published by William S. Potter, Freehold, N. J. Lithograph by C.\nCurrier, the brother of Nathaniel Currier. 111/2 by 153/4 inches plus margins.\nLithograph colored by hand. $65.\n62\nTHE OLD PRINT SHOP. 150 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16\nQUEEN OF THE HUDSON\nTHERE was never another boat on the Hudson that inspired\nso much affection or was the subject of so many legends as\nthe Mary Powell. Her beauty, her speed, her accomplish-\nments made history for sixty years along the river where\nshe was a familiar sight on her daily run from Kingston to\nNew York and back. Carl Carmer has given an interesting\nP.P.F.\naccount of her history in The Hudson. It seems she could\nnot pass her home landing at Kingston, when she chanced to\nbe on the way to Albany, without veering of her own accord\ntoward Rondout Creek; her passing of West Point was\ntaken as a more accurate evidence of time than the Academy's\nclocks; and not even a cyclone could throw her off schedule.\nThe Mary Powell was designed by Captain Absalom Anderson\nhimself, and was built by Michael Allison at Jersey City.\nThe North River Iron Works made her engine. She was\nfirst placed in service in 1862, but made her greatest speed\nin 1882, twenty-five miles in one hour, one minute.\nOld Print Shop\nM.P.\nNEWMAN, Henry Shaw\nMarch 3, 1933\nNew York\n13. THE MARY POWELL. As the \"Queen of the Hudson\" looked in 1882, after\nremodelling. C. R. Parsons del. Lith. of Endicott do Co., New York. 18 by 27\ninches plus margins. Lithograph colored by hand. $75.\nP.P.F.\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Henry Shaw\n2253\nOld Print Shop\nMarch 3, 1933\nNew York\nIncloses memo of the packages at the town house containing the prints,\nand the boxes containing the paintings which were packed up and fixed at their\nshop. Should the President want him to, he will undertake the hanging of these\nprints at the White House.\nSEE P.P.F. 223\nP.P.F\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw\n2253\nNew York\nMarch 21, 1933\nPeters.\nSends the President a print at the request of Mr. Harry T.\nSEE P.P.F. 9-P\nP.P.F\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw\nNew York\n2253\nApril 11 1933\nIn letter to Miss LeHand says that when the President paid them his\nmemorable visit just a month ago he very kindly offered to lend a group of\nNaval prints for exhibition at Columbia University in Avery Hall, in order\nto launch the new drive for a print collection at Columbia. Hopes it can\nbe arranged so that they can secure these prints for exhibition sometime in\nApril. They are publishing a lithographic portrait of the President in\ncolors, in the exact manner of the series of Presidential portraits issued\n75 years ago by Currier and Ives and that they are very enthusiastic about\nit. Would like personally to show it to the President sometime late this\nweek or early next.\nSEE P.P.F. 233\n5942\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\nP.P.F.\nNew York, N. Y.\n7-19-33\n2253\n1853, for sale to the President.\nOffers a fine colored lithograph, published by Geo, S. Appleton\nSEE P.P.F. 450\nP.P.F\n2253\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq., (The Old Print Shop, Inc.)\nNew York, N.Y.\nOctober 2, 1933\nWants to send on approval, with view to buying, two prints of\nCivil War Naval engagements.\nSee P.P.F. 223\nP.P.F.\n2253\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw\nNew York City\n11-10-33\nThe President on the above date,\nSends rare old print asking that Mr. Newman have it sufficiently\nrepaired repaired to make it look somewhat better, and have it put in a plain\nblack frame and returned to him\nSEE OLd PRINT SHOP\nP.P.F.\n2253\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq., (The Old Print Shop, Inc.)\nNew York, N.Y.\nNovember 11, 1933\ninspection. Sends the President a List of Naval Prints for his\nSee P.P.F. 223\nINC.\nSEE\nNewman, Harry Shaw,\nP.P.F.\nThe Old Print Shop Inc.,\nNew York, N.Y.\nDec. 7,1933.\n2253\nSays that when Miss LeHand's check in payment of their invoice for cleaning\nthe President's print was received the awful truth dawned on him that he\nhad failed to carry out his instructions to have the print suitably framed\nin a black moulding. Asks Miss LeHand to be good enough to rush it back\nto them, charges collect, so that they may complete the job.\nSEE OLD PRINT SHOP, INC.\nnewman, HARRY SHAW, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\nP.P.F.\nNew York, N.Y.\nDecember 16, 1933.\n2253\nSends to the President on approval a lithograph of the \"U.S.S. Franklin!\n(Returned to sender as President already has one)\nSee P.P.F.223\nInc.,\nService York, N.Y.\n1933\nthe President that they have been fortunate in\n8 of Currier and Ives folio size Naval\n2n they have\nWriten that the President\nto that the tab who ected\nthe Folios Revel\nPerry's of Lake the Combes\nHerrinat.\nBreatment\nto\n450\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq.,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\n2253\nNew York, N.Y.\nDecember 27, 1933\nWrites the President that they have been fortunate in\nsecuring a group of Currier and Ives small folio size Naval\nprints, which are in pristine condition, &which they have\nlisted on a separate enclosed sheet. Writes that the President\nwill be interested to know that the ten collectors who acted\nas judges of the Best Fifty Small Folios selected two Naval\nprints, Perry's Victory of Lake Erie and the Terrific Combat\nbetween The Monitor and The Merrimac. Hopes the President\nwill be able to visit New York during this exhibition.\nSee P.P.F. 450\nThe\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq.,\n2253\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\nNew York, N.Y.\nMay 9, 1934\nWrites Miss LeHand that his cousin, Laura Vitray, is\nfeature editor of the Washington Post, and has asked him\nif he could obtain for her some photographs of seven or\neight outstanding items from the President's collection of\nNaval prints to use in the rotogravure section of her paper.\nOn May 14, 1934 Miss LeHand replied to Mr. Newman that\nthe President had chosen five pictures which are down here\nin Washington, and which he will be glad to let Miss Laura\nVitray photograph. Asks to have Miss Vitray get in touch\nwith her, etc.\nSee Old Print Shop, Inc. The\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq.,\n2253\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\nNew York, N.Y.\nAug. 9, 1934\nWrites the President that in going over some of the old\nstock this summer, he found a pen drawing of a coach and four,\ncarrying the pencilled inscription, \"J. R. Roosevelt.\" Thinks\nthat if this should be the family coach of the Presi dent's\nfather that the President would like to have it, encloses\nit in letter. Also encloses a list of a handful of Naval\nprints, some of which the President may lack.\nSee P.P.F. 9-N\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq.,\n2253\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\nNew York, N.Y.\nNovember 17, 1934\nWrites the President that they have secured an impression\nof a very rare Naval print which writer thinks may be of interest\nto the President; they would be pleased to send this on approval\nif the President would like them to.\nSee P.P.F. 223\nOLD PRINT SHOP\nNEWMAN, Harry S.\nP.P.F.\nNew York, N.Y.\nSeptember 6, 1935\n2253\nHave secured a fine impression of the rare Naval caricature by William\nCharles, engraved in line and aquatint, entitled, \"John Bull making a new\nBath of Ships to send to the Lakes.\" The price is $45.00. Asks if the\nPresident is interested.\nSEE P.P.F. 223\nvah.\nP.P.F.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw, Esq., (The Old Print Shop, Inc.)\nNew York, N.Y.\nJune 11, 1936\n2253\nWrites the President calling to his attention two fine contemporary portrait\nengravings of Commodore Thomas Macdonough and Commodore Oliver H. Perry, which\nhe offers for sale.\nSee P.P.F. 223\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw,\nThe Old Print Shop, Inc.,\nP.P.F.\nNew York, N.Y.\nJan. 28, 1938.\n2253\nCalls President's attention to an interesting American naval\nprint, which they have recently secured. Describes this print, and will send\nit on approval if President is interested. Price is $75.00.\nMiss LeHand advised Mr. Newman on 2-3-38 that President already has print.\nSee P.P.F.223\nbr\nP.P.7.\nNEWMAN, Harry Shaw,\nOLD PRINT SHOP, THE,\n2253\nNew York, N.Y.,\nFebruary 1, 1943 - (ackd.)\nNote of thanks from Miss Tully for sending the President a copy of\nthe January issue of \"The American Neptune\" .-Publication sent to Study.\nSee P.P.F. 9-0\nfmf"
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