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Map of New York Bay and Surrounding Area, from "Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne" (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818–20)

Author Relates to Axel Klinckowström Swedish
1824
Not on view
Map that describes the New Jersey coast and Sandy Hook, the southern half of Manhattan, and parts of New Jersey and Brooklyn.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Map of New York Bay and Surrounding Area, from "Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne" (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818–20)
  • Series/Portfolio: Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818–20)
  • Author: Relates to Axel Klinckowström (Swedish, 1775–1837)
  • Date: 1824
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 5 11/16 × 3 7/16 in. (14.4 × 8.8 cm)
    Sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 15/16 in. (24.4 × 17.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.90.1965(13)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Designer Axel Klinckowström
Etcher Aquatints by Carl Fredrik Akrell
Designer Maps by John Melish
1824
Nyckelharpa Bow, Wood, horsehair, Swedish
Swedish
late 19th Century
Seated Giant, Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)  Spanish, Burnished aquatint, scaper, roulette, lavis (along the top of the landscape and within the landscape)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
by 1818 (possibly 1814–18)
Nyckelharpa, Wood, various materials, Swedish
Swedish
19th century
The Genius of Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)  Italian, Etching
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)
Publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi
Dedicatee Matthys van de Merwede, Lord of Clootwyck
ca. 1645–47 (published 1648)

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