New York from Brooklyn Heights - 1849
Original title: View of New York, from Brooklyn Heights, 1849. Drawn by Frances Flora Bond [Fanny] Palmer (1812-1876), lithographer and publisher Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888). Note on print: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N. York. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fanny Palmer moved to New York from England in 1844. She moved to Brooklyn in 1849.
View of Lower Manhattan, from across the East River, crowded with steamboats. It includes church spires and some other noted buildings. Despite its name, the East River is actually a tidal strait.
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Enlargement of the center of this hand-colored lithograph.
East River
Merchants' Exchange
St. George's Chapel
North Dutch Church, Fulton and William streets.
Post Office former New Dutch Church
United States Hotel (Holt's Hotel), corner of Fulton and Water streets.
Another skyline on Ney York from Fanny Palmer.
New York from Brooklyn Heights - 1849
