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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 315925, member: 5833&quot;]In the photo, the sketch of the scene on the back looks like pencil.&nbsp; Is it really ink?&nbsp; Trying to figure out if it would have bled through to the other side to act as a cartoon for the painting.&nbsp; Can you tell whether the lines on the back match up with their counterparts on the front?&nbsp; The human figures have the same outline in both versions while upper stories of the buildings on the painting&#039;s left, the crowd in the background &amp; the tree had to be completed without this aid.&nbsp; The tree seems to be indicated by a squiggle in the drawing.&nbsp; I see no false steps on the back, which suggests to me that there was a detailed drawing of the scene where mistakes could be fixed &amp; revisions made, from which the finalized version was transferred in outline to the back of the canvas.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, my impression is that the painting was made the hard way.&nbsp; The stapling of the canvas to the stretcher surely was not done by machine?&nbsp; It does not &#039;feel&#039; like old New York to me, but...?&nbsp; The inclusion of the copyright mark after the signature says it&#039;s not very old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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