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Print, Bowery Theater, New York, NY, 1828
This is a Print. It was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis. It is dated 1828 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is engraving with etching, brush and watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The first Bowery Theater was inaugurated in 1826, and burned in 1828. It was rebuilt and reopened three months later. This print probably records the original appearance of the theater "having externally the similitude of white marble, with spacious portico and lofty columns supporting an entablature and a pediment." It was supposed to be a popular theater, and later specialized in melodrama. After numerous fires and many metamorphoses, the final destructive fire occurred in 1929.
Its dimensions are
27.2 × 21 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Printed in black, lower center: BOWERY THEATRE, NEW-YORK. / Drawn and Engraved expressly for the / NEW-YORK MIRROR, / AND LADIES' LITERARY GAZETTE. / 1828.
Cite this object as
Print, Bowery Theater, New York, NY, 1828; Designed by Alexander Jackson Davis (American, 1803–1892); engraving with etching, brush and watercolor on paper; 27.2 × 21 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.); 1948-89-13
