The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 37, no. 4

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ROBERT HAVELL Panoramic View of New York from the East River, 1844
The large number of printed views documenting
the expansion of New York
during the second quarter of the nineteenth
century reflected the pride and
satisfaction of its citizens in the growing
mercantile prominence of their city. Both
of these prints depict a city that has
surpassed that engraved by Robertson and
churches moved uptown. The demand for
images of buildings, civic events, and broad
vistas made this an active period for
printmakers of all degrees of competence.
Havell, best known for his aquatints of
Audubon's Birds of America, emigrated to
New York in 1839. His view of New York
from the East River and its companion
of the aquatint and the rich hand-coloring.
In the Hill-Papprill view, the sweep of
Broadway leads the eye through the dense
urban fabric to the Gothic-style edifice of
Trinity Church, then recently completed.
Barnum's famous museum, Mathew
Brady's daguerreotype studio, and Genin's
well-advertised hat store are clearly visible