This portrait of Astor pays homage to his importance in the New York real estate market. On the left, the landscape—a stone wall, trees, a smoking chimney on a one-story gabled house—belong to a disappearing landscape in an urbanizing city. On the right, the sign posted on the building reads “FOR SALE House and L[ot]…”; nothing else is legible. The print highlights Astor’s role in selling house lots, although by the time this print was made his real estate interests were weighted toward rentals and leases, and he was more landlord and developer than speculator.