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Colored map showing the city of Boston in the center with buildings, surrounded by a river.

John Bachmann’s Bird’s Eye Views

Posted by: Meagan Snow

John Bachmann, a Swiss born lithographer, moved to the United States shortly after 1848, and went on to produce a series of bird’s eye maps that depict American landscapes in ways that were groundbreaking around the mid-nineteenth century. His work blurred the line between cartography and fine art, and his landscape prints are held by …