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Stock# 38857
Description
An attractive mid-19th Century aquatint view of New York City, taken from Weehauken.
This fine view looks down from the heights above Weehauken, New Jersey, down onto Lower Manhattan (in the left background) and over New York Harbor past Governor's Island to Paulus Hook (in the right background).
New York was then by far the largest city in America, with a population of over 300,000. It was also the largest port and Ameirca's main gateway to the World, as evidences by the harbor teaming with sailing ships.
The view is one of the last to capture the 'old' New York, before the city was utterly transformed by steam power and industrialization.