Iconography of Manhattan Island: Illustrations from the Publication

Item Information

A view of the present seat of his excel. the Vice President of the United States

Dublin Core

Title

A view of the present seat of his excel. the Vice President of the United States
Government house

Subject

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --History --18th century.
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Vice-Presidents -- United States -- Homes and haunts
New York (N.Y.) --Description and travel --Views.
Dwellings

Description

Two images on the page.

Top: Originally from The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository, June 1790. This building was called Richmond Hill, and Vice-President John Adams resided there after the Revolution.

Bottom: The artist and engraver may have been John Scoles, 1772?-1853.

Creator

Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832
Scoles, I. (or J.)

Source

Stokes, I. N. Phelps. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. Electronic reproduction. v. 1. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008.

Date

1790

Language

eng

Additional Item Metadata

Spatial Coverage

New York
Manhattan

Provenance

Charles A. Munn, Esq.

Citation

Plate 55-a [no page number; following chapter 4]

Temporal Coverage

1790

MODS

Type of Date

ex

Repository Name

nnc-rb

Language of Cataloging

eng

Digital Origin

rd

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Engravings

Citation

Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832 and Scoles, I. (or J.), “A view of the present seat of his excel. the Vice President of the United States,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed May 21, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/1270.

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