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A view of the harbor of New York in the mid-eighteenth century when it was a colony of the Dutch. The view of the busy harbor is from across the river looking into New York. Various vessels are anchored in the water and beyond them is a town. Major landmarks are numbered and a legend identifying the names of the landmarks is printed in the margin underneath a block of text on the history of the founding of New York.

This print is a reduced copy of the original, which was "six feet six inches in length and twenty-eight inches wide" and published by Thomas Bakewell. This copy was made for the presentation to the New York Society Library in 1848 by a Mrs. Maria Peebles of Lansingburgh, New York.


ports and harbors
1848-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Hayward, G.; Bakewell, Thomas
ink; paper; pigment
13 3/4 in x 24 in; 8 1/2 in x 19 in
USA: New York, New York