After Frederick Catherwood

'Catherwood's view of New York from Governor's Island was sketched in watercolor sometime after he took up residence in New York in August 1844 at 86 Prince Street. By the spring of the following year, he had left for a journey to South America, ... Two states of the Catherwood-Papprill print exist. Impressions with the copyright notice are more rare than those without it.' (G.G. Deák, Picturing America, 1497-1899, vol. 1, Princeton, 1988, pp.356-7, no. 531)

For a similar proof before letters including, as here, the engraver's name scratched in small letters in the centre of the lower margin, see the proof recorded in Stokes, 1846-E-121.