Broadway, New-York from Canal to Grand Street, West Side

Broadway, New-York from Canal to Grand Street, West Side

Julius Bien

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A line of building facades stretches along the west side of Broadway, from Canal Street, at left/south, to Grand Street, at right/north. Ominbuses, carriages and delivery vehicles fill the street, moving in both directions, and there are pedestrians on a sidewalk in the foreground. The buildings are numbered 419 to 457, Howard Street breaks through the line of buildings right of center, and many signs are posted on the facades to advertise the businesses inside.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.