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Old Houses in the "Five Points", 1870, from "Scenes of Old New York"
1871
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 1/4 x 5 in. (15.8 x 12.7 cm) sheet: 7 5/16 x 5 13/16 in. (18.5 x 14.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 54.90.926
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Henry Farrer. Old Houses in the "Five Points", 1870, from "Scenes of Old New York". Henry Farrer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Old Houses in the "Five Points", 1870, from "Scenes of Old New York" — Henry Farrer. 1871.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 6 1/4 x 5 in. (15.8 x 12.7 cm) sheet: 7 5/16 x 5 13/16 in. (18.5 x 14.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.