Iconography of Manhattan Island: Illustrations from the Publication

Item Information

New York, with the entrance of the North and East Rivers

Dublin Core

Title

New York, with the entrance of the North and East Rivers
The small Atlantic Neptune view
A plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, with a particular description of the engagement on the Woody Heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn, on the 27th of August 1776 (etc.)
The Howe war plan

Subject

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

Description

Two images on the page.

Creator

Faden, William

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

1777 (top image), 1776 (bottom image)

Language

eng

Additional Item Metadata

Spatial Coverage

New York
Manhattan

Provenance

M.C.D. Borden Collection
I.N. Phelps Stokes

Citation

Plate 45-a [no page number; following chapter 3]
Plate 45-b [no page number; following chapter 3]

Temporal Coverage

1776

MODS

Key Date

1776 1777

Type of Date

ex

Repository Name

none

Language of Cataloging

eng

Digital Origin

rd

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Aquatints
Engravings

Citation

Faden, William, “New York, with the entrance of the North and East Rivers,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 24, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/1253.

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