メトロポリタン美術館のインスタグラム(metmuseum) - 10月15日 10時43分
D'awww, it's little baby #UnionSquare 🏙️ 👶
When amateur artist (and our #wcw) Sarah Fairchild painted this cityscape, the park at Union Square in NYC was relatively new. It was built in the early 1830s on vacant land extending between Broadway and Fourth Avenue above Fourteenth Street.
The gushing fountain in the middle ground was constructed in 1842 to mark the completion of the Croton Aqueduct—which for the first time assured New Yorkers of a sufficient water supply. Without the Croton system in place, the population of Manhattan could not have doubled, as it did, between 1845 and 1855.
Perhaps to underscore the importance of water to Manhattanites, Fairchild shows a man pointing in excitement with his cane and a couple within the park staring raptly at the fountain’s plumes of spray.
🎨 Sarah Fairchild (active 1840s). Union Park, New York, ca. 1845. Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper. @metamericanwing #WomanCrushWednesday
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