Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand D

A bird's-eye color lithograph shows the Brooklyn Bridge at night, its towers and cables lit, with fireworks bursting above the East River. Dense rows of sailing ships, steamers and small boats crowd the water, and balloons drift in the sky above the city.

Look closer: Small hot-air balloons with advertising banners float in the upper left sky.

Artist

A. Major

Date

1883

Medium

Color lithograph

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3811 × 2740 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954