Panorama of Manhattan Island, City of New York and Environs.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps geographicus.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from geographicus.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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1854 (undated)
Description
John Bornet presents a sweeping panoramic bird s-eye view of New York City on the cusp of its monumental expansion northwards in the second half of the 19th century. The view looks east on Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn from a high point to the west of Hoboken, New Jersey. Bornet purports to have drawn the view from nature , likely from Bergen Hill, New Jersey, a popular high point used by other viewmakers of the period.
Looking at the ViewThe view contrasts a rural and pastoral foreground with the bustling metropolis of New York City, which itself fades to green north of today s 42nd street. Bornet plays with exaggerated vertical contrast to highlight New York s many soaring church steeples, as well as the Latting Observatory, then the tallest building in New York, and New York Crystal Palace in modern day Bryant Park, both constructed for the 1853 Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations. Ships of both sail and steam, fill the lower
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