City of New York - 1760
Original title: A South West View of the City of New York, Taken from the Governours Island. According to Cohen & Augustyn (Manhattan in Maps, 2014), this illustration is based on a watercolour by Thomas Davies, dated 1760. This skyline is an insert from the Plan of the City of New York and its Environs: Surveyed in the Years 1766 & 1767 by B. Ratzer, shown across the bottom of the map. Published probably in London, about 1770. Source (image above): Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library. Below, black and white enlargements of parts of the City.
"Jerseys" is on the left and Long Island in on the right. According to Stokes (Iconography of Manhattan Island, ...1915), the cloud of smoke in the sky just south of St. George’s Chapel is from a small fire on the shore-front, just to the south of which a ship is careened undergoing repairs, and the fire is evidently from a tar-kettle used in this connection.
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Map by Bernard Ratzer.
Plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, with disposition of both the armies, British and American.
About the same view in 20th century.
City of New York - 1760
City of New York - 1767