![[WEST VILLAGE] NICHOLSON, FRANCIS. Map of Property Belonging to Alfred S. Pell, Esquire, Situated in the Eighth Ward of the City of New York, New York, March 1827.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/2022-12-16/1580625.jpg?itok=QXCHSSKx)
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[WEST VILLAGE] NICHOLSON, FRANCIS. Map of Property Belonging to Alfred S. Pell, Esquire, Situated in the Eighth Ward of the City of New York, New York, March 1827.
Manuscript map on joined sheets of paper in ink and colors, titled as above and signed "Frs. Nicholson p." The map is backed. 16 1/4 x 44 inches (41 x 110 cm). Small losses to extremities including a more substantial loss to the upper left corner affecting the border, tears, stains and dust soiling, later markings within the image.
A fine horizontal plan of the West Village lands of Alfred Sands Pell (1786-1831) and his wife Adelia (daughter of Colonel James Duane and Mary Livingston). This neighborhood had seen great development in the years following the Commissioner's Survey with many changing street names. The colored focus of this map is on the intersection of where Christopher Street, Greenwich Lane and Sixth Avenue meet. This area once was split by Minetta Creek, diverted underground in the early 1820s, when this group of streets was planned. The land that would become Washington Square, often described as a Potter's Field, is present on this map as the four blocks between Sixth, MacDougal, Fourth, and Wooster Streets. The title script and compass rose of Nicholson's map are elegant and his work is uncommon and usually associated with a slightly later period.
C Collection of a New York Surveyor
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