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NEW YORK CITY – HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885), KUMMER Julius, (1817-1869), and DÖPLER. New-York. New York, Paris, London, Berlin: Goupil & Co., [1851].
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NEW YORK CITY – HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885), KUMMER Julius, (1817-1869), and DÖPLER. New-York. New York, Paris, London, Berlin: Goupil & Co., [1851].
A fine and large bird's-eye view of New York City with Battery Park in the foreground. This is a particularly striking depiction of nineteenth-century New York, with Manhattan Island dramatically foreshortened and in dappled light. Reps 2659; Stokes, Manhattan Island, vol. 3, p. 893.
Hand-colored engraving (594 x 935mm, the image), engraved by Sigismund Himely (a few very minor marginal stains). Matted, glazed and framed.
A fine and large bird's-eye view of New York City with Battery Park in the foreground. This is a particularly striking depiction of nineteenth-century New York, with Manhattan Island dramatically foreshortened and in dappled light. Reps 2659; Stokes, Manhattan Island, vol. 3, p. 893.
Hand-colored engraving (594 x 935mm, the image), engraved by Sigismund Himely (a few very minor marginal stains). Matted, glazed and framed.