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E. view of the city of New York, or: 41 S. view of the city of New York. – Historic Photograph Print

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.

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This ink drawing is the east view of New York, one of a pair in the Library of Congress that includes a south view. The record dates both only to the 1770s, and it suggests Thomas Davies, a British army officer who sketched American towns, as a possible artist. The drawings belong to a tense decade in the city. British forces occupied New York from 1776 until 1783, turning the port into a military base, so these sketches capture the town on the eve of that change.

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 × 443 px · prints to 5 × 1 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122699

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