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A Catalogue of Plans and Views of New York City From 1651 to 1860: Exhibited at the Grolier Club Twenty-Nine East Thirty-Second Street, N. Y., From December 10 to December 25, 1897 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Rebellion to the present day few pictures of our city (which during that period has been virtually te-built) have been made except by photography, an agency in the production of pictures which we do not recognize in this connection.
In our belief, the day for making pictures of New York has passed away, never to return. There is no alchemy in art sufficiently powerful to transmute into things of beauty towering piles of bricks and mammoth gas-holders. New York as an entirety, and under the garish light of day, has lost irrevocably the quality of picturesque ness it once possessed; but when night falls, and the great city sinks into a dimly outlined mass, overarched with the halo formed by its myriad lights, the scene changes as by magic into one of mystic beauty, and the lines of one of our own sweet singers are verified anew.
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Rebellion to the present day few pictures of our city (which during that period has been virtually te-built) have been made except by photography, an agency in the production of pictures which we do not recognize in this connection.
In our belief, the day for making pictures of New York has passed away, never to return. There is no alchemy in art sufficiently powerful to transmute into things of beauty towering piles of bricks and mammoth gas-holders. New York as an entirety, and under the garish light of day, has lost irrevocably the quality of picturesque ness it once possessed; but when night falls, and the great city sinks into a dimly outlined mass, overarched with the halo formed by its myriad lights, the scene changes as by magic into one of mystic beauty, and the lines of one of our own sweet singers are verified anew.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0331953803
- ISBN 13 9780331953800
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages45
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