We’ve seen this image of a bucolic Gowanus Bay before, but we’re taken by it when we clicked over to the Ephemeral New York post courtesy of a Brownstoner link yesterday evening. ENY says it’s “An 1851 oil painting by Australian artist Henry Gritten. The full title is ‘Sun Set at Gowanus Bay in the Bay New York‘ and the original hangs in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts in Tasmania.” They don’t quite make the Gowanus scenes like that anymore.
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1 deborah matlack // Jun 12, 2008 at 11:25 am
Superb! Makes me wish I had a time machine to travel back to a kinder, gentler (?) time, less congested anyway. Currently re-reading “The Great Bridge” by David McCullough, I would have loved to be around to see the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Thanks for a “blast from the past”.