"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color signed in pencil & titled

signed in pencil & titled in lower left margin

on a full sheet of heavy buff colored wove paper

or the print studio they were published by

Any attempts to discover the identity of the artist who created this charming work have proven unsuccessful

enlightening us to perceive beauty where before we had only seen a common nuisance

"Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass" by R. Swain Gifford, Amer., (1840-1905) Color signed in pencil & titledEtching, 1879, as published in American Art Review, plate 8 5 8 x 5 7 8, image 6 7 8 x 4 7 8, diagonal crease to lower left margin corner, pale fox mark below signature l. r., on cream laid paper with large margins. One of Gifford's most fascinating prints for it's bucholic but un romanticized depiction of American maritime industry in the second decade following the Civil War.