Sidney's Map of Twelve Miles around New-York. With the names of property holders, &c., from entirely new & original surveys.

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• ARTIST: James Sidney

• PUBLISHER: Published by J.C. Sidney. Engraved on stone by N. Friend, 141 Walnut St. Philadelphia. Printed by H. Camp.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: 1849.

• EDITION SIZE: Image 35 1/2 x 35 5/8" (90.1 x 90.4 cm) plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: A remarkable and highly detailed map of Manhattan and the surrounding area. This circular plan is centered on the tip of lower Manhattan. Noted are roads, houses (with many owners' names given) parks, reservoirs, railroads, and ferry terminals. Also noted are soundings in lower New York Harbor. Relief is noted by hachures and in New York harbor soundings are given. In the lower left is an image of the Arms of the State of New York. In the lower right is a scale of miles and a bald eagle with arrows and laurel in its talons.<br><br> James Charles Sidney (1819-1881), was an architect, engineer, surveyor, and landscape designer. In the early 1840s, he was employed by John Jay Smith, Librarian for the Library Company of Philadelphia, as a cartographer. Sidney later worked with Robert Pearsall Smith, the son of John Jay, who was one of the most prolific American map publishers of the mid-nineteenth century.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Fair condition. Varnished and mounted on linen. Some small losses within the image and overall time toned. not uncommon for varnished wall maps of the period.

• REFERENCE: Haskell, D. C., Manhattan Maps, #930.

• CATEGORIES: Maps