Antique View of Gowanus Heights Brooklyn New York, Meyer ca. 1850

Name: Antique View of Gowanus Heights Brooklyn New York, Meyer ca. 1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-147
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 15.7 × 23 cm (6.2 × 9.1 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition overall, with mild age toning and occasional minor spotting in the margins consistent with age. Strong impression with full margins preserved.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: New York
Reference: BG-14038-147

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Gowanus Heights near Brooklyn, an original steel engraving published around 1850 by the Bibliographisches Institut of Hildburghausen in Meyer's Die Fünf Welttheile dargestellt in Bild & Wort. The sheet is printed in black. The plate title, in German, reads "Die 'Gowanus Heights' bei Brooklyn", with the Hildburghausen imprint and the publisher's property line beneath.

The view looks down a country road lined with tall trees and wooden houses. A horse-drawn cart and several figures stand in the middle ground, and a few more walkers appear farther up the road. Below, a scatter of rooftops marks the settlement, with the water of the harbor opening out behind it and church towers rising on the ridge at the right.

Gowanus lies on the shore of Brooklyn facing New York Bay. The heights above it were the ground of the Battle of Long Island in 1776, so the quiet, half-rural scene shown here recalls a place already known to American readers for its Revolutionary War history, before Brooklyn was built up into a city.

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