Nathaniel Currier|William Keesey Hewitt|The New York 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

1840
Hand-colored lithograph
21.4 × 30.5 cm (8.4 × 12 in)

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