1923 Print Eumachia Ruin Street of Abundance Priestess Drinking Fountain XGQ3 YBSM1 Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street

Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street

Period Paper is pleased to offer a collection of hand-colored steel engraved Victorian fashion plates

and prints from 1939-1940

This is an original 1935 photogravure of the equestrian statue of the Venetian general Gattamelata by Donatello in the Piazza del Santo in Padua

1923 Print Eumachia Ruin Street of Abundance Priestess Drinking Fountain XGQ3 YBSM1 Fourth Avenue and 23rd StreetThis is an original 1923 halftone print of two images, the bottom image depicts the ruins of a building and drinking fountain which were originally built by a priestess named Eumachia. The top image is a recreation of what a visitor would have seen before the ruins. Both images depict a public drinking fountain, which would have been located in front of the Street of Abundance, which was an ancient shopping district dealing with fine jewelry and other