A view of the city of New York from Long Island

Drawing shows distant view of the New York City skyline, with ships in the East River.

Inscribed in ink on the back: Montresor.
Possibly owned or drawn by John Montrésor, British military engineer.
Published in: The iconography of Manhattan island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sovrces and illvstrated by photo-intaglio reprodvctions ... / by I.N. Phelps Stokes. New York : R.H. Dodd, 1915-28, v. 1, pp. 361-362.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 547.