View of New York from Brooklyn Heights
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
image: 11 5/16 x 16 7/8 in. (28.7 x 42.9 cm) sheet: 13 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (34.9 x 46.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mary Knight Arnold, 1974
Accession Number
1974.673.42
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
"View of New York from Brooklyn Heights," created in 1849 by Frances Flora Bond Palmer in collaboration with publisher Nathaniel Currier, offers a charming glimpse of mid-nineteenth-century New York Harbor. This hand-colored lithograph captures the bustling scene from the elevated vantage point of Brooklyn Heights, with sailing ships and steamboats dotting the waters amid the growing skyline of Manhattan. The medium of lithography, which allowed artists to reproduce detailed images affordably, made such prints widely accessible to the public, bringing distant cityscapes into American homes. P...