"Bird's Eye View of Hamilton, Ontario" print by Herman Brosius (1876)

Between 1871 and 1884 the American illustrator Herman Brosius drew 57 bird's eye view drawings like this, travelling from Texas to North Dakota to Ontario and back again more than once.

This print of Hamilton was rendered by Brosius and printed by the Chicago Lithograph Co. in 1876, and it shows an incredibly detailed view looking south from Burlington Bay towards the Niagara Escarpment. 

A reproduction available at 16x12" or 24x18" on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed.Restored from a digital file found in the McMaster University Digital Archive.