mario, entitled, give us this day our daily bread. the painting presents a vast scene of construction and excavation from the westward vantage point of a rear window at a house by third avenue. the painting shows the strange, incomplete mosaic of new york's postwar housing boom, with isolated buildings and telegraph poles, dominating by vacant lots. this scene assumes additional significance when juxtaposed to the 1863 right engravings. the perspective of mary was painting is from a spot one or two south of the building and where the draft office was held. in other words, it offers the reverse view of the news engraving, which looked east towards second avenue. in effect, the painting completed five years later, is a draft riot scene. it chronicles the -- four days of unprecedented violence. new york's working class districts also were unfamiliar to most readers of the pictorial press, with the exception of an area in lower manhattan. so readers in 1863 and four scholars today, the illustrated, and first avenue was unusual in depictin