Axial Commons Image Treasury
Nighttime photogravure of a city of flat rooftops with a hazy skyline and a tall tower rising at center under a dark sky.

New York at Night

A nighttime view over a dense city of flat rooftops, with rows of chimneys and water tanks in the foreground fading into a hazy skyline. A single tall tower rises at center under a dark, gray sky, and scattered lights glow across the buildings. The tonal, soft-focus photogravure print has rich blacks and silvery highlights.

Artist
Paul Burty Haviland
Date
1914
Medium
Photogravure on paper
Source
Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)
Size
3999 × 3271 px
Download full size
Public domain · Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1914).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery

Español: Nueva York de noche, fotograbado de Paul Burty Haviland

Una vista nocturna sobre una densa ciudad de azoteas planas, con hileras de chimeneas y tanques de agua en primer plano que se desvanecen en un horizonte brumoso. Una torre alta se eleva al centro bajo un cielo gris oscuro, y luces dispersas brillan entre los edificios. La impresión en fotograbado, de tono suave, tiene negros profundos y reflejos plateados.

Português: Nova York à noite, fotogravura de Paul Burty Haviland

Uma vista noturna sobre uma cidade densa de telhados planos, com fileiras de chaminés e tanques de água em primeiro plano que se dissolvem em um horizonte enevoado. Uma torre alta se ergue ao centro sob um céu cinzento escuro, e luzes espalhadas brilham entre os edifícios. A impressão em fotogravura, de tons suaves, tem pretos profundos e realces prateados.

More from Night and Dreams

Mezzotint of a seated mother holding a sleeping baby as two children and a dog gather in a dim room with a fireplace at right.A family scene with a mother holding a sleeping baby and being shown a dead robin by one oStipple engraving of a sleeping woman in a white cap, with a grinning dark demon crouched on her chest beneath a draped bed canopy.A perturbed young woman asleep with a devil sitting on her chest; symbolizing her nightmarEngraving of Mary with a finger to her lips beside a sleeping infant Christ, young John the Baptist with a staff at left, a lily in a pot and a landscape behind.The Virgin Mary telling a young Saint John the Baptist to be quiet as the baby Jesus is slStipple engraving of a sleeping young woman in bed while a grimacing dark demon crouches on her chest beneath a draped canopy.A perturbed young woman asleep with a devil sitting on her chest; symbolizing her nightmarPrint of three nude women and a cloaked man in woods, beneath a radiant light burst at upper left.De droom van ParisPainting of two haloed saints in red robes performing surgery on a sleeping man in a curtained bed, with a kneeling attendant holding a candle, in a gilded frame.A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation