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A View of New York from the North West
177410 5/8 x 17 13/16 in. (27 x 45.3 cm)
Joseph F.W. Des Barres
Switzerland (Switzerland, 1729 - 1824, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Hand-colored aquatint
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Topham
Accession Number:
1992.30
Location: Not currently on view
A print from the first important marine atlas, American Neptune, presents a scene of British naval vessels sailing near rural Manhattan shores – ostensibly a peaceful and calm moment, but deceptively so, since it would only be a matter of months before resistance to British rule surfaced. The New York that we see through Des Barres’s eyes is over two centuries and a national history removed from Rhonda Schaller’s memento mori for the destruction of the World Trade Center, but contained in both works is the kernel of political struggle and tragic loss of life.
[Label text, 2003]
[Label text, 2003]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- All Around the Town: Artists' New York Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 8/1/2003 - 11/9/2003
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Gloria Gilda Deák. Picturing America 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
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