217. New York. Battery. A view of the Battery in common black print. 218. New York. City Hotel. R. S. W. A plate printed in dark blue, with a view looking down Broadway, and including Trinity Church. In the foreground, in the middle of Broadway, in front of a hotel, a man is sawing wood on an old-fashioned saw-buck. The clear oak leaf and acorn border, and scroll mark on back, with R. S. W., as in No. 219. 219. New York. Park Theatre. R. S. W. [Illustration: Park Theatre Plate.] A view of the Park Theatre, including the lower end of City Hall Park with its ancient brick posts, where now stands the Post-office. In the distance the spire of the Old Brick Church, where Dr. Spring preached. A clear oak leaf and acorn border, and scroll and leaf mark, with initials R. S. W. A plate is here shown. The first Park Theatre was built in 1797. It stood in Park Row, about two hundred feet from Ann Street. It was opened on January 29, 1798, the first play being “As You Like It;” $1,232 were taken in at the first performance. In May, 1820, it was burned to the ground. In 1821 it was rebuilt, and opened with “Wives as they Were and Maids as they Are.” It was burnt on December 16, 1848. An original water-color drawing of the interior is in the rooms of the New York Historical Society, with a key to the members of the audience, for the figures are portraits. Many of the men are sitting with their hats on. In this theatre appeared Thomas A. Cooper, Charles Mathews, the Keans, Charles and Fanny Kemble, Malibran, Celeste, Fanny Ellsler, Madame Vestris, Clara Fisher, Julia Wheatley, Master Burke, the Ravels, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Charlotte Watson, Charlotte Cushman, Ellen Tree, Taglioni—what prettier memento of the old New York stage can there be than the old Park Theatre plate? 220. Niagara. A view of Niagara Falls in a pink print on small plate. 221. Niagara. Print in medium shade of blue. A large house and trees in foreground and diminutive semi-circular waterfall in background. On back the stamp “Niagara.” 222. Niagara. Table Rock. This beautiful dark blue plate has the rich shell border of Wood, though it does not bear his impressed mark, and has only the stamp with eagle and motto “E Pluribus Unum” and words “Table Rock Niagara.” The view is taken from the foot of Table Rock looking upward, and is very artistic. Entire dinner services bearing this design were exported to America. Park Theatre. New York. See No. 219. Passaic Falls. Trenton. See No. 256. 223. Peace and Plenty. Clews. A medium blue plate decorated with border of fruit and flowers. In centre, a Roman husbandman crowned with grain and surrounded by sheaves of wheat; in his right hand a sickle, and in his left a basket of fruit; by his side a shield with the American eagle and the motto “Peace and Plenty.” Made by Clews. Two plates bearing this design sold at the Governor Lyon sale for three dollars each. Penn, Wm. Treaty with Indians. See No. 267.