Iconography of Manhattan Island: Illustrations from the Publication

Item Information

Plan of the City of New York

Dublin Core

Title

Plan of the City of New York
The Ratzen plan

Subject

Cartography --United States --History
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --History --18th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --Maps.

Description

The author's name, Bernard Ratzer, is mispelled as "Ratzen." This was presumably an engraver's error.

Creator

Ratzer, Bernard
Kitchin, Thomas

Source

Stokes, I. N. Phelps. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. Electronic reproduction. v. 1. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008.

Date

1776

Additional Item Metadata

Temporal Coverage

1766 1767

Spatial Coverage

New York
Manhattan

Provenance

I.N. Phelps Stokes

Citation

Plate 42 [no page number; following chapter 3]

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Engravings

Citation

Ratzer, Bernard and Kitchin, Thomas, “Plan of the City of New York,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed March 8, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/1250.

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