Lot 2: C. B. JULIEN DE ST. MEMIN

1770-1852
A VIEW OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, FROM BROOKLYN HEIGHTS... (DEÀK 218)

sheet 1510 by 122 mm 59 1/2 by 4 7/8 in

Engraving on three sheets, c.1796, the first state (of two), published by M. Dripps, c.1850, on thin wove paper, with margins, in good condition apart from three fox marks in the image, the lower sheet trimmed irregularly at right, a small stain in the title line, light-stain, framed

NOTE

EXHIBITED
New York, Historical Society, China Trade, 1984
New York, Public Library, Views of New York, 1983

LITERATURE
I. N. Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan 1498-1909. New York,1915, p. 541-542