"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color on a full sheet of

on a full sheet of heavy buff colored wove paper

or the print studio they were published by

Alden Weir and Mahonri Young at Weir Farm

tape stain to upper corner tips

enlightening us to perceive beauty where before we had only seen a common nuisance

"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color on a full sheet ofEtching, 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.