Reinagle, Hugh “View of the Camp of Coln. Laights Regiment of Militia in the vicinity of Manhattanville ..."

Hugh Reinagle.  “View of the Camp of Coln. Laights Regiment of Militia in the vicinity of Manhattanville S. of N. York.”  [New York City]. 

From The Analectic Magazine.  Philadelphia: 1818.  3 5/8 x 5 3/4. Engraved by Kneass, Young & Co.  Very good condition.  

Manhantanville is a neighborhood bordered on the north by 135th Street; on the south by 122nd and 125th Streets; on the west by Hudson River; and on the east by the campus of City College.

In 1812, Philadelphia bookseller and publisher Moses Thomas purchased a monthly magazine entitled Select Reviews, engaged Washington Irving as editor, and renamed the publication The Analectic Magazine.  Irving, his brother-in-law J. K. Paulding, Gulian C. Verplanck and, later, Thomas Isaac Wharton wrote much of the material, which concentrated on literary reviews, articles on travel and science, biographies of naval heroes, and reprints of selections from British periodicals.  Illustration “was one of the magazine’s chief distinctions.  Not only were there the usual engravings on copper, but some of the earliest magazine experiments in lithography and wood engraving appeared here.