The Bay Full Of Fish, Jasper Danckaerts
1679-1670 • Hudson River
“It is not possible to describe how this bay swarms with fish, both large and small, whales, tunnies, and porpoises, whole schools of innumerable other fish, which the eagles and the other birds of prey swiftly seize in their talons when the fish comes to the surface.”
Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. New York: Ballantine, 2006. 22-23.
“A South West View of the City of New York, in North America, 1710, Pierre Charles Canot, Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.90.42
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