Birds Eye View of New-York & Brooklyn. 1850. Large hand-colored tinted lithographed panorama of Manhattan and Brooklyn. 70x89 cm, 26¾x35 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color; light foxing and toning, a few small scrapes or scuffs within the image, several repaired tears mainly keeping to the margins.
"No finer artist of city views worked in America than John Bachmann. Unfortunately, there is no artist about whom less is known, for information concerning his life appears to be nonexistent . . . Bachmann chose to portray New York and his other subjects as if seen from imaginary viewpoints far above even the loftiest office building or church steeple . . . Bachmann's views offer a rich sample of lithographic achievement in this country and in France during the third quarter of the last [19th] century. Those he executed during the decade of the 1850s are particularly outstanding and are justifiably regarded by collectors and curators as among the finest American views to be found" (Reps, pages 160-161; entry 2647).
