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E. view of the city of New York, or: 41 S. view of the city of New York. – Historic Photo Reproduction

E. view of the city of New York, or: 41 S. view of the city of New York., [177-] — historic drawing
E. view of the city of New York, or: 41 S. view of the city of New York., [177-]. Historic drawing from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Drawn from the east, this ink view is one of two companion sketches of the city, the other seen from the south, and the pair is catalogued together at the Library of Congress. The record dates the drawings only to the 1770s and suggests Thomas Davies, a British army officer who sketched American towns, as a possible hand. The decade put New York at the center of the Revolution, and British forces held the city from 1776 to 1783, so the drawings capture a waterfront that was about to become a major British military base.

Created / published[177-]
Medium2 drawings : ink.
GenreCityscapes 1770-1780.Ink drawings 1770-1780.
NotesTitle from item. Possibly by Thomas Davies. Published in: The iconography of Manhattan island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sovrces and illvstrated by photo-intaglio reprodvctions ... / by I.N. Phelps Stokes. New York : R.H. Dodd, 1915-28, v. 1, p. 361. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, nos. 545 (S. view) & 546 (E. view).
SubjectsNew York (N.Y.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 463 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122700

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