Erie Canal Brings Wealth to New York City (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 10" x 17" (250mm x 440mm)
Date: 1969
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: McBrideErieLL

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Angus McBride.

The Making of America: It Cost Only $24! The building of the Erie Canal and (inset) governor De Witt Clinton celebrating its completion by pouring a keg of Erie water into the Atlantic.

It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. When completed in 1825, it was the second longest canal in the world.

Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 405 (18 October 1969).

• Artist Biography
  Angus McBride (1931 - 2007; UK & South Africa)
  Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical and fantasy illustrators, and contributed to numerous books, magazines and articles, including the classic Look & Learn, JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents, but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after National Service, emigrated to South Africa where he lived for several years, before relocating to Ireland before his sad demise in 2007.