Charcoals of New and Old New York (1912)

Charcoal drawings and commentary on: Wall Street; The Skyscraper; The Brooklyn Bridge; The City Hall; Castle Garden; Behind Shinbone Alley; Elizabeth Street; Clinton Court; No. 5 West Twenty-eighth Street; The Little Church Around the Corner; The Grand Canyon on the Yellow; The Stock Exchange; The Upheaval; The Subway - Brooklyn Bridge; Manhattan; Madison Square; Gansevoort Market; Edgar Allan Poe’s House at Fordham; Jumel Mansion; The Bronx; and The Willows Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was an engineer, artist, illustrator, and short story writer. As a successful engineer he took on difficult feats such as the foundations for the Statue of Liberty, the foundation of Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Long Island Sound, the design of Butlers Flat Lighthouse at the entrance to the harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the Race Rock Light in Fisher’s Island Sound. As he devoted more and more time to his hobby, which was painting, he traveled frequently to Europe and became known for his work in portraits, genre, and illustration.