bornet john (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Lithograph with original hand color, 31" x 41 ½" sheet. Condition excellent. Not less an elusive figure in the history of New York and the visual arts than John Bachmann, Bornet relies on the same aesthetic vocabulary as his contemporary, including the use of an imaginary viewpoint and emulation of classical compositions; note, for instance, the exploration of pictorial depth through an alternation of repoussoir motifs and the serpentine line of the ships. Bornet thus achieves a neatless blend of the middle- and backgrounds. The bird's eye view itself gained prominence as a compositional technique in the early decades of the 19th century - it reflects the bourgeois pride in chronicling urban growth while at the same time asserting a tradition that harks back to the Renaissance and the first aerial views of Florence and Venice. Called a "totalizing view" by Roberts (2016) it also implies a moral connotation that the author of "Evangelical Gotham" relates to the eye of God: "Bornet embraced a totalizing view, assuming an all-encompassing eye to see as only God could. A forest of impossibly tall church steeples serve as markers of religious achievement and reminders of the spiritual marketplace's northward advance alongside residential and commercial development." The latter part holds especially true for the companion piece to the "Panorama of the Harbor of New York" which focusses on Lower Manhattan and present-day Midtown. Yet the portrayal of the so-called Atlantic Gateway with Staten Island on the left shares a quasi-Puritan sentiment that - if not explicitly religious - identifies the New World as utopia. The lighting situation as well as the sumptuous dwellings around Fort Wadsworth record the importance of trade; ship traffic becomes the epitome of economic prosperity. Similarly, it should be noted that "the majority of immigrants also passed through the Narrows on the final leg of the journey that brought them to New York" (Symmes 2005). The nationalism of Walt Whitman and his celebration of inclusion in "Leaves of Grass" belong to the same creative zeitgeist. Lit. Kyle Roberts: "Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City 1783-1860", Chicago 2016. Marylin Symmes: "Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society", New York 2005. John William Reps: "Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925", Columbia 1984. #10162F.

Unbound. Chromolithograph (28 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.; 73 x 101 cm) finished with hand-coloring, with 48 unnumbered references below and 24 above. BINDING/CONDITION: Expertly closed tears mostly marginal (some slightly affecting image and partially obscuring some of the captions). Loosely laid down on sturdy card, enclosed in mylar. (65B1C) LARGE FORMAT PANORAMIC VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY, PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK. Bornet's lithograph features a sweeping view of Manhattan from the west, with New Jersey in the foreground and Brooklyn, Westchester County, Long Island in the distance. REFERENCES: Reps, Viewmakers of Urban America, 2671; Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan III, Supp. List, 56. Not in Deák.