Item Information Dublin CoreTitleA view of the battery and harbour of New York, and the Ambuscade frigate
The Drayton view
SubjectManhattan (New York, N.Y.) --History --18th century.
New York (N.Y.) --Description and travel --Views.
DescriptionFrom "Letters Written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States of America" by John Drayton, Charleston, South-Carolina, 1794.
The engraver may have been Samuel Hill, 1766?-1804. CreatorDrayton, John, 1766-1822
Hill, S.
SourceStokes, 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.
Date1794
Additional Item MetadataTemporal Coverage1793
Spatial CoverageNew York
Manhattan
ProvenanceWilliam Loring Andrews, Esq.
CitationPlate 59 [no page number; following chapter 4]
Still Image Item Type MetadataOriginal FormatEngravings
CitationDrayton, John, 1766-1822 and Hill, S. , “A view of the battery and harbour of New York, and the Ambuscade frigate,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed March 17, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/items/show/1276. |