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To create the 1890 view, Lucien Burleigh walked every street in the Village of Cooperstown and made sketches of every home, business and commercial building, road, barn, hill, stream, fence, boathouse and dock. He then went back to his shop in Troy and redrew that information onto the master drawing. If, by chance, it was later pointed out to the artist, that something was not accurate, he would make the change for future printings of the map.
Panoramic views, also known as illustrated maps, perspective maps, bird’s-eye views, and pictorial maps, depict a given territory with a more artistic rather than technical style. It is a type of view in contrast to road, atlas, or topographic maps. The cartography can be a sophisticated 3-D perspective landscape or a simple map graphic enlivened with illustrations of buildings, people and animals. They can feature all sorts of varied topics like historical events, legendary figures or local agricultural products and cover anything from an entire continent to a college campus. Drawn by specialized artists and illustrators, pictorial maps are a rich, centuries-old tradition and a diverse art form that ranges from cartoon maps on restaurant placemats to treasured art prints in museums.
Panoramic maps usually show an area as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. They are not generally drawn to scale in order to show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective. While regular maps focus on the accurate rendition of distances, panoramic maps enhance landmarks and often incorporate a complex interplay of different scales into one image in order to give the viewer a more familiar sense of recognition. With an emphasis on objects and style, these maps cover an artistic spectrum from childlike caricature to spectacular landscape graphic with the better ones being attractive, informative and highly accurate. Some panorama maps required thousands of hours of work to produce.
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THE ORIGINAL ARTIST
The Original Artist and Publisher was Lucien R. Burleigh (1853-1923)
The Cooperstown 1890 Bird's Eye View is the only panoramic, bird's eye view of Cooperstown New York drawn by Lucien Burleigh, or any other view maker.
During the late 1880s, Lucien Burleigh's views of New York and New England were very popular. An 1883 Troy N. Y. city directory listed Burleigh as a civil engineer. By 1886, he had become a lithographer and view publisher, publishing under the name Burleigh Lithographing Company. An advertisement in the 1886 city directory said that the firm, at 86 Congress Street, did fine work in all branches of engraving and printing, with views of buildings and villages a specialty. Burleigh published panoramic maps as late as 1892, but his most productive years were from 1885 to 1890. Views were published under his personal name and under the imprint Burleigh Lithographing Company or Burleigh Lithographing Establishment, Troy, N. Y..
Lucien Rinaldo Burleigh may have been the best educated of all of the American born view makers. His ancestry goes back to William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony.
Lucien R. Burleigh Troy N.Y. (1853-1923)