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A view of the City of New-York from Brooklyn Heights, foot of Pierrepont St., in 1798.
1861
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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Metadata
- Call Number
- A Middle 30/Drawer 10/GC024/Full Folio/19th c./Artists M-Z GA 2011.01455
- Publisher
- New York : [s.n.], 1861.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Landscapes—New York (State)—New York—1861
- Landscapes—United States—1861
- Cities and towns—New York (State)—New York—In art
- Panoramas—New York (State)—New York—1861
- Waterfronts—New York (State)—New York—In art
- East River (N.Y.)—In art
- Rivers—New York (State)—In art
- Landscapes—Northeastern States—1861
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- A view of the City of New-York from Brooklyn Heights, foot of Pierrepont St., in 1798.
- Call Number
- A Middle 30/Drawer 10/GC024/Full Folio/19th c./Artists M-Z GA 2011.01455
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcdv1406465
- Publisher
- New York : [s.n.], 1861.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1861
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 18.1 x 144.5 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings
- Depiction: Landscape with panoramic view of New York City from Brooklyn Heights. Underneath each area in the print a caption indicates what part of New York the etching depicts.
- Signed in plate, lower center: "by Monsieur C.B. Julien de St. Memin. With a Pantograph invented by himself".
- Signed in plate, lower right: "Prepared by M. Dripps for Valentine's Manual 1861, Published by and from an Original Drawing now in possession of J.C. Brevoort Esqr. of Brooklyn".
- Provenance: Inscribed in pencil left: "Estate of N.B. Fox '99, Apr 1974".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Landscapes—New York (State)—New York—1861
- Landscapes—United States—1861
- Cities and towns—New York (State)—New York—In art
- Panoramas—New York (State)—New York—1861
- Waterfronts—New York (State)—New York—In art
- East River (N.Y.)—In art
- Rivers—New York (State)—In art
- Landscapes—Northeastern States—1861
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fba6d3c9-5f03-4db7-9917-9255bb1a69a7/manifest