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Print
A View of New York from the North West
Wooded Heights View
Attributed to Joseph F.W. Des Barres, (Switzerland, 1729 - 1824, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Des Barres, Joseph F.W.
Switzerland
1729 - 1824
Male
10 5/8 x 17 13/16 in. (27 x 45.3 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1774
1774
1774
1600-1800, 18th century, aquatints, boats, New York city, seascapes
Print
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]
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1992.30
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Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
92.30SL1
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8 x 10
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92.30DI#2
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7/24/2009
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