Newspaper article accompanying print in The Sun, 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: Sheet (Trimmed): 11 9/16 × 16 1/16 in. (29.4 × 40.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Accession year: 1963