Stock Exchange
Artist/Maker
Nat Lowell
(United States (b. Latvia), 1880-1956) Dateca. 1900
Mediumetching
DimensionsSight: 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (29.8 x 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (41.9 x 30.8 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Dr. David Klein
Object number61.127.000
DescriptionIn 1792 twenty-four brokers met on what is now Wall Street and set a minimum commission on the sale of stocks. Wall Street actually takes its name from the cross path that linked the two sides of a wooden wall built around New Amsterdam by the Dutch in fortification against the English in the mid 1600s. The cool neo-classical temple façade, featuring Corinthian columns and eleven pedimental figures, belies the frenzy of activity that goes on daily behind the doors of perhaps the world's most powerful financial institution.