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View of the City of New York taken from Long Island

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Title

View of the City of New York taken from Long Island

St. Memin's general view

Subject

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --History --18th century.

New York (N.Y.) --Description and travel --Views.

Creator

Saint-Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852

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.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5800727_001/pages/ldpd_5800727_001_00000620.html?toggle=image&menu=maximize&top=&left=

Date

1796

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Temporal Coverage

1796

Spatial Coverage

New York

Manhattan

Provenance

R. T. H. Halsey, Esq.

Citation

Plate 61 [no page number; following chapter 4]

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Original Format

Engravings

Citation

Saint-Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852, “View of the City of New York taken from Long Island,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 5, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/1279.