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MATTER, C. (American, 19th century).
Bird's Eye View of New York and Brooklyn.
Lithograph with original hand color.
New York: J.H. Locher, c. 1852.
24 3/4" x 31" sheet; 34 1/2" x 41 1/2" framed.
This marvelous view of New York and Brooklyn is based on a drawing by the Swiss-American artist John Bachmann (1814-1896), and shows a vibrant seaport teeming with commercial vessels, a testament to the city's prominence as a bustling center of business and industry. This scene includes meticulous renderings of the architectural landscape of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, including Castle Garden, which was then an entertainment hall, here shown offshore of Battery Park. It would soon be surrounded with landfill as Manhattan's shoreline was continually extended in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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MATTER, C. (American, 19th century).
Bird's Eye View of New York and Brooklyn.
Lithograph with original hand color.
New York: J.H. Locher, c. 1852.
24 3/4" x 31" sheet; 34 1/2" x 41 1/2" framed.
This marvelous view of New York and Brooklyn is based on a drawing by the Swiss-American artist John Bachmann (1814-1896), and shows a vibrant seaport teeming with commercial vessels, a testament to the city's prominence as a bustling center of business and industry. This scene includes meticulous renderings of the architectural landscape of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, including Castle Garden, which was then an entertainment hall, here shown offshore of Battery Park. It would soon be surrounded with landfill as Manhattan's shoreline was continually extended in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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