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Complete Record for Item 2N X1.5.28

Core Fields

Title:Plan of the City of New York in North America
Item Type:Maps
Date:1770
Call Number 2N X1.5.28

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Ratzer, Bernard

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

Added_person: Faden, William
Local_note: Pencil note, verso: "Circa 1770 . . .First state (unknown to Stokes) before the imprint was added at left, above the view [?]. See Stokes, Vol. 1, p. 341 and Plate 41."
Local_note: See map 9212, a full-size 19th-century reprint, and various reduced reprints in the collection: maps 134, 8753, 8802, and 9465, all of which show variations in print styles and in the "View" at the bottom.
General_note: The map shows farm lines, private property, and city streets in detail; there is a drawing of "a South-West View of the City of New York Taken from the Governours Island at * ."
Extent: 1 printed map on 3 joined sheets
Dimensions: 122 x 92 cm.
Added_date: 1767
Medium: black ink on paper, backed with paper backed with cloth
General_note: dedication "To His Excellency Sir Henry Moore Bart . . ."
Added_person: Kitchin, Thomas
Local_note: Map 9211 .2 is encapsulated; map 9211 .3 has been heavily varnished and is now almost illegible. Both copies are full-size and from the same London printing as map 9211 .1, here surveyed.

Geographic Location: [Linked to other records with the same Location]

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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