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One of the rarest of all Ohio town views: the great folio bird\'s-eye of Zanesville and Putnam, drawn by the celebrated itinerant viewmaker James T. Palmatary and printed in colors by E. Sachse & Co. of Baltimore, c.1852–53 — twenty years before Putnam was even annexed into Zanesville. The famous Y-Bridge crosses the Muskingum at center, a train steams through the foreground, and a numbered key locates thirty-six churches, mills, factories and landmarks of the young city — the Zanesville Locomotive Works, the Stacy House, the Female Seminary, the rolling mill, the glass works.
Palmatary was the most ambitious of America\'s 1850s view-makers — his enormous views of Chicago, Columbus and Indianapolis are cornerstones of the genre — and Edward Sachse\'s Baltimore firm printed the finest tinted town views of the era. Surviving examples are genuinely rare: no copy of this view is located in the Library of Congress panoramic view collection, Ohio Memory, the Rumsey collection, or any current dealer inventory. It is catalogued in John Reps\' standard census, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America.
A lovely human touch: an early owner — surely a Zanesville family — annotated the margin in period brown ink, naming three properties (\"D.A. Williams,\" \"Jennie,\" \"Belden\"). This sheet hung in a Zanesville parlor and was pointed at. An old collection inventory number (1145) appears at the left edge.
CONDITION, honestly described: mounted on its old backing board as issued for hanging; overall toning and scattered staining; edge chips; a crack through the board at the upper-right corner extending into the sky area; verso with old tape remnants and staining. All photographed in detail — please study every photo before purchase
DIMENSIONS: sheet/board approx. 30 x 19 inches (76 x 48 cm).
SHIPPING: flat,
