Iconography of Manhattan Island: Illustrations from the Publication

Item Information

Kip's Bay, showing the British troops crossing the river on Sept. 15, 1776

Dublin Core

Title

Kip's Bay, showing the British troops crossing the river on Sept. 15, 1776
Drawn by Archibald Robertson on Aug. 17, 1778, probably from a sketch made on the earlier date

Subject

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

Creator

Robertson, Archibald

Source

Stokes, I. N. Phelps. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. Electronic reproduction. v. 5. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008.

Date

1778

Language

English

Additional Item Metadata

Spatial Coverage

New York
Manhattan

Provenance

New York Public Library

Citation

Plate 48 [no page number, within Chapter 3]

Temporal Coverage

1776

MODS

Key Date

1778

Type of Date

Approximate

Repository Name

No repository

Language of Cataloging

English

Digital Origin

Reformatted digital

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Drawing

Citation

Robertson, Archibald, “Kip's Bay, showing the British troops crossing the river on Sept. 15, 1776,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 24, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/3914.

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