Melrose Abbey / F.F. Palmer del. ; lith. Currier & Ives, N.Y.

Print shows a moonlight view, from the east, of the ruins of Melrose Abbey with two men on horseback in the foreground. The area around the Abbey is overgrown with trees.
21947 U.S. Copyright Office.

Caption: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit it by the pale moonlight; / When the cold light's uncertain shower, / Streams on the ruin'd central tower; / When buttress and buttress, alternately, / Seem framed of ebon and ivory; / While the broken arches are black in night, / And each shafted oriel glimmers white. (Scott).
Copyright stamps at bottom center and right.
Inscribed in ink at bottom: 3911. July 11 1862.
Inscribed in pencil at bottom center: 21947.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Gale, 4462
Conningham, 3335