The scene is viewed from a suburban residence in Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. Of the approximately 150 churches in New York, the title key of the print identifies eleven, including Grace Church, Trinity Church, St. Other structures shown are City Hall, Holt's Hotel, Fulton Market and the Astor House. At this time fifteen of the twenty-nine banks in Manhattan were located on or just off Wall Street. It shows anticipatory views of the Merchants Exchange-the domed building to the left-designed by Isaiah Rogers that was built from 1836-1842, which replaced the building that had been destroyed in the Great Fire of 1835, as well as the new Custom House -to the center of the composition- designed by Ithiel Town and Andrew Jackson Davis, which was built from 1833-1842. His view depicts lower Manhattan from Wall Street to Canal Street, then the most populous part of the city that had a population at the time of around 250, 000. Hill's watercolour, done when he was only 24, was probably made the previous year. Phelps Stokes, considered it "one of the most beautiful New York views of the period." The aquatint in colour is known as the Pigeon View of New York, referring to the rooftop birds in the foreground, an ironic reference to the popular bird's-eye view prints that commonly depicted lower Manhattan. Clover in 1837 as part of a series of nineteen views of American cities. View of New York from Brooklyn Heights, after John William Hill's watercolour, was engraved by William James Bennett and published by L.
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