Print of a scene of West King Street looking east to the square. Done on heavy acidic stock with attached window mat, in a roughly square format.
Mid-nineteenth century street scene, done as a pen and ink rendering, depicts around ten people on the side walk in front of the buildings along the south side of the first block of West King Street. Several business signs are visible, as well as hitching posts and a pump and trough.
This print is signed by the artist within the print at lower right, as well as in pencil at the lower right margin: "CWVieson," followed by 2/25, indicating this to be the 2nd of a limited series of 25 prints. At lower left margin is the date of 1926 in pencil.
On the reverse of print is "Slaymaker" scrawled in pencil.
The artist most likely used the 1845 photograph by Dr. William B. Fahnestock of a very similar scene when he drew his own rendering of King Street.
Dark overall with acid burn and soiling; vertical streaking across sky and several oblique lines extend from street down to lower margin. Dark spot at lower right margin below signature. Window matt attached to print with adhesive; also very acidic and darkened.
