. International studio. ural South Ferry, Atlas Docks, Under the secrets that sometimes come to light when a new Bridge, Tramps, East River, and others are street is opened up in an old part of the city, filled with the romance of ships that will not be One of the most charming features of the seen again in New York Harbor. But Mielatz architecture of old New York was to be found in etched these subjects not for any possible anti- the doorways of the more formal mansions. These quarian appeal, but because their peculiar quali- entrances were often designed in the best spirit of ties of picture
. International studio. ural South Ferry, Atlas Docks, Under the secrets that sometimes come to light when a new Bridge, Tramps, East River, and others are street is opened up in an old part of the city, filled with the romance of ships that will not be One of the most charming features of the seen again in New York Harbor. But Mielatz architecture of old New York was to be found in etched these subjects not for any possible anti- the doorways of the more formal mansions. These quarian appeal, but because their peculiar quali- entrances were often designed in the best spirit of ties of picturesqueness pleased his personal taste, the Colonial period. Despite the rapid and now The Coenties Slip, with its shipping and the almost complete disappearance of the old city, row of quaint old Dutch houses, topped by the there are still a few examples of this early period tower of the Produce Exchange in the background, left, although they are mostly in a regrettable /110 n 1 n ety-s 1 \ JULY 1922 mreRnAcioriAL SOT1M©. stateofneglect. Mielatz huntedout artistic gems of this kind,often in sordid streets where the buildings hadcome to be utilized for incongruous purposes, andrecorded them in some of his most felicitous such is The Toy Shop (picturing delight-fully and with an almost vagrant freedom a ROADTOTHE SEA—SPEONK, LONG ISI ANDFROM AN ETCHING BY C. F. W. MIELATZ Church, with its exquisiteprecision, its sharp and cleandetail, its vigorous contrasts, its marvelousdenotement of the texture of limestone, and thevelvety black of the door in deep shadow. An amazing achievement of personality intreatment is the very large plate (etching and lovely old house in Third Avenue near 124th aquatint combined) of Edgar Allan Poes Cot-Street), which is the most popular plate in the tage at Fordham. The late Edmund Clarencewhole series. When this house was built it fronted Stedman, most famous of Poes editors, declaredon the old Boston post road, 7 Miles from City of this pl
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