Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Mill Rock and Hell Gate from Fort Stevens, Long Island, New York City
Object Number:
1889.17
Date:
1814
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite with touches of gouache on paper laid on heavier paper (together with 1889.16)
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 5/16 x 30 3/4 in. (31.3 x 78.1 cm)
Marks:
inscription: upper center, ink: "Mill Rock and Hell Gate from Fort Stevens"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed above image in brown ink: "Mill Rock and Hell Gate from Fort Stevens."
Description:
Military.
Gallery Label:
In 1814, in order to provide protection for the city of New York against a British invasion by way of the Long Island Sound, fortifications were erected at Hallett's Point on the Long Island shore, on Mill Rock in the East River, and a series of entrenchments, blockhouses and barrier gates were constructed across upper Manhattan Island. This is a view taken from the interior of Fort Stevens, looking west across Hell Gate and the East River with the blockhouse on Mill Rock in the distance.
Credit Line:
Deposited by the Common Council of the City of New York
Provenance:
The City of New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
