"THE OBELISK IN CENTRAL PARK - DRAWN BY F. COZZENS."

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PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Cozzens, Frederic Schiller
USA, NY, New York
February 12, 1881
6.63 x 9.13 x 0

Wood engraving from the 2/12/1881 issue of "Harper's Weekly" illustrating the erection of the obelisk called "Cleopatra's Needle" in Central Park, New York; the obelisk was gifted to the United States by the Eygptian government in 1879 and remains on its site near the Metropolitan Museaum of Art; , engraving entitled "THE OBELISK IN CENTRAL PARK - DRAWN BY F. COZZENS." Unrelated engravings of Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven and Edward H. Sothern also on page

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