Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, January 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Nathaniel Currier|William Keesey Hewitt|The New York Sun
Artist bio: American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York|American, 1817–1893| 
Artist role: Lithographer|Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: American|American|American
Date: 1840
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 8 7/16 in. × 12 in. (21.4 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 14 1/2 in. (29.3 × 36.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Accession year: 1963
Tags: Fire|Boats|Ships|Human Figures