COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06-224
Record number:
06-224-1
JCB call number:
DD Drake 5825
Image title:
Prospect of the City of New-York
Place image published:
[New York]
Image publisher:
[Hugh Gaine]
Image date:
[1771]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
3.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
10.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
6.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of New York City with a row boat and two sail boats in the foreground and a ship at dock. Includes British flag, churches, fort, and college. Items are numbered for identification in key below image.
Source Title:
The New-York pocket almanack, for the year 1772. ... By Thomas Moore ...
Source place of publication:
New-York [New York]
Source publisher:
Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine in Hanover-Square.
Source date:
[1771]
notes:
"Thomas Moore" is a pseudonym; the actual calculator/author of the almanac was John Nathan Hutchins. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2006.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject headings:
New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel
Prospect of the City of New-York
