New York Gold Exchange mb-height 1690 Portrait of William Herschel

Portrait of William Herschel

27th September 1961

Plate 18 from the paper 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey

The scene is an interior with a marble fireplace in the background over which is a mirror

'Covent Garden Scene - Women Workers Standing'

New York Gold Exchange mb-height 1690 Portrait of William HerschelNew York Gold Exchange, USA, 1863. The New York Gold Exchange was established early in the American Civil War as an open market for transactions involving gold and the government created demand notes known as greenbacks. It was founded by bankers and brokers who had been involved in the New York Stock Exchange and other mercantile exchanges for whom trades in gold and greenbacks were taking up to much of their attention.