William P. Chappel, 1870 - City Watchman - fine art print

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In the year 1870 the painter William P. Chappel made this artpiece. The original was made with the exact dimensions: 6 1/8 x 9 1/8 in (15,6 x 23,2 cm). Oil on slate paper was applied by the American artist as the technique for the artwork. Besides, the artwork forms part of the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954 (public domain). : The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954. Besides, the alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.4 : 1, which means that the length is 40% longer than the width.

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• Metal print (aluminium dibond): These are metal prints on aluminium dibond material with an impressive depth effect, creating a fashionable look with a surface , that is not reflective. A direct Aluminium Dibond Print is the excellent start to art reproductions on aluminum. The UV print on aluminium is one of the most demanded entry-level products and is a modern way to display artworks, since it puts 100% of the viewer’s focus on the artwork.
• The poster print on canvas material: The Artprinta poster is a UV printed sheet of canvas paper with a nice surface finish. A poster print is used for framing your art copy in a special frame. Please bear in mind, that depending on the size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of approximately 2 - 6cm round about the painting to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• Acrylic glass print: The acrylic glass print, often denoted as a print on plexiglass, will transform the original artwork into beautiful décor. The work of art will be manufactured with modern UV print machines. The great advantage of an acrylic glass fine art print is that contrasts and granular color details become identifiable because of the subtle gradation.
• Canvas print: A UV printed canvas material applied on a wood frame. Your printed canvas of this work of art will let you turn your own into a large work of art as you know from art galleries. Hanging your canvas print: Canvas prints are relatively low in weight. This means, it is quite simple to hang your Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Therefore, a canvas print is suitable for any kind of wall.

Legal disclaimer: We try the best we can to depict our products as precisely as possible and to display them visually in our shop. However, the pigments of the printing material and the imprint can vary somehwat from the presentation on the device's monitor. Depending on the screen settings and the nature of the surface, colors can unfortunately not be printed as realistically as the digital version depicted here. Considering that all the art prints are printed and processed manually, there may as well be slight deviations in the motif's exact position and the size.

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A watchman, armed with his stick and leather helmet, sets out on a snowy evening patrol from his Elizabeth Street sentry box. So-called leatherheads looked out for fires and criminal activity, such as break-ins and grave robberies. Before New York City established a professional police force in the 1840s, residents relied on a patchwork system of constables, marshals, and watchmen tasked with maintaining order in an increasingly unruly city. An inscription on the reverse of this image identifies the building to the right of the box as the Old Methodist Meeting House and those to the left as the homes of a cabinetmaker, a ward inspector, and a grocer.