The views of New York here annexed (pp. 250, 251) are the principal ones of the earlier half of the seventeenth century. The larger (New York, on the scroll) is from the great map of Popple, British Empire in America, published in 1732. The upper of the two (p. 251) is reduced from a large panoramic South Prospect of ye Flourishing City of New York (6-6/12 × 2-4/12 ft.), dedicated to Gov. George Clinton by Thomas Blakewell, which was published March 25, 1746. A lithographic reproduction appeared in Valentine’s N. Y. City Manual, 1849, p. 26, and in his Hist. of N. Y. City, p. 290. (Cf. Cassell’s United States, i. 480.) Originals are reported to be in the N. Y. Society library and in the British Museum (King’s Maps, ii. 329, and Map Catal., 1885, col. 2,975).
The reduced fac-simile view, called a “South Prospect,” follows a copperplate engraving in the London Magazine, Aug., 1761.
Key: 1, the fort; 2, the chapel in the fort; 3, the secretary’s office; 4, the great dock, with a bridge over it; 5, the ruins of Whitehall, built by Gov. Duncan [Dongan]; 6, part of Nutten Island; 7, part of Long Island; 8, the lower market; 9, the Crane; 10, the great flesh-market; 11, the Dutch church; 12, the English church; 13, the city hall; 14, the exchange; 15, the French church; 16, upper market; 17, the station ship; 18, the wharf; 19, the wharf for building ships; 20, the ferry house on Long Island side; 21, a pen for cattle designed for the market; 22, Colonel Morris’s “Fancy,” turning to windward, with a sloop of common mould.
This print is clearly based on the one placed above it.
The official documentary collections of New Jersey have already been indicated,[590] as well as some traces of its local history.[591]
A view of New York about 1695 is no. 39 in the gallery of the N. Y. Hist. Society. Cf. Mrs. Lamb’s New York, i. p. 455, for one assigned to 1704.
A view purporting to be taken in 1750 is found in Delisle’s Atlas (1757).
A collection of views of towns, which was published by Jan Roman at Amsterdam in 1752, included one of Nieu Amsterdam, namaels Nieu York. (Muller’s Catal. of American Portraits, etc., no. 310.)[592]