Material paper
Dimensions 119 × 87.5 cm
Status Vetted

About the Work

"Perhaps the finest map of an American city and its environs produced in the eighteenth century" (Augustyn).


This superb and elegant map takes in the southern end of Manhattan island, as far north as 50th Street today, the marshy New Jersey shores of the Hudson, Kennedy, Bucking and Governors Islands, and parts of present day Brooklyn along the East River. It shows the city of about 25,000 people, surrounded by countryside that includes much of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The view at the bottom, "A South West View of the City of New York, Taken from the Governours Island at *" is after a watercolor by Captain-Lieutenant Thomas Davis. The title and list of references appears within a rococo cartouche lower left, the dedication to Sir Henry Moore, the Governor of New York, in another upper left, a scale lower right.

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Literature

Cohen and Augustyn Manhattan in Maps pp.73-77; Cumming, “The Montresor-Ratzer-Sauthier Sequence of Maps of New York City, 1766-76” in Imago Mundi Vol. 31 (1979), pp. 55-65.

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