Hand-colored steel engraving of the Erie Canal near Little Falls, New York State, from: N. P. Willis, American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature (London: George Virtue, 1838).

The Erie Canal was a major engineering feat that connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, opening up the interior of the country for settlement and trade, and was completed in 1825, celebrating its 200^th anniversary in 2025.

10.4 in x 8 in; with matting 12 in x 9.8 in

This is a contemporary original, not/not a later repro, and is ready for framing or as a gift.