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A view of the city of New York from Long Island – Vintage Wall Art

A view of the city of New York from Long Island, [177-] — historic drawing
A view of the city of New York from Long Island, [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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A view of the city of New York from Long Island

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Drawn from Long Island, this view looks across the East River toward the southern tip of Manhattan, showing the city's waterfront and rooftops from the opposite shore. The sheet is dated only to the 1770s, but its subject ties it to the Revolutionary War, when New York was a contested port. British forces took the city in the fall of 1776, after the Battle of Long Island, and held it until 1783. The drawing appears in two standard references, I.N. Phelps Stokes's *Iconography of Manhattan Island* and a Library of Congress checklist of Revolutionary-era graphics. The ink and watercolor give the scene a careful, detailed quality worth studying in the skyline.

Created / published[177-]
Medium1 drawing : ink and watercolor.
GenreCityscapes 1770-1780.Drawings Color 1770-1780.
NotesTitle from item. 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, pp. 361-362. 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, no. 547.
SubjectsNew York (N.Y.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 989 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114183

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