Art, literature & history
Old House in Rector Street, from "Scenes of Old New York"
1870
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 x 5 3/8 in. (15.2 x 13.7 cm) sheet: 6 5/8 x 6 in. (16.8 x 15.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 54.90.919
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Henry Farrer. Old House in Rector Street, 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 House in Rector Street, from "Scenes of Old New York" — Henry Farrer. 1870.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 6 x 5 3/8 in. (15.2 x 13.7 cm) sheet: 6 5/8 x 6 in. (16.8 x 15.2 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.