LUIGI KASIMIR (1881-1962). View of [New York from] Governor’s Island. 1927 Cartographer_Martin Waldseemuller Whitmore had been inquiring about

Whitmore had been inquiring about Robert Salmon

after Geelkerken's original copperplates were discovered in the in Stralsund (a town featured in a vignette on the map)

a fervor caused as much by desperation as by scientific and aesthetic high-mindedness

February and March

John Gould (1804-1881) Mareca penelope [Widgeon]

LUIGI KASIMIR (1881-1962). View of [New York from] Governor’s Island. 1927 Cartographer_Martin Waldseemuller Whitmore had been inquiring aboutLUIGI KASIMIR (1881 1962) View of [New York from] Governors Island Pastel and graphite on paper 1927 17 3 4 x 12 sheet, 31 1 4 x 24 1 4 framed In Pettau in 1881, Luigi Kasimir was born as part of the Austro Hungarian monarchy. Later in his life, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Art, and it was here that the artist was introduced to colored etching from his teacher William Unger. As one of the first to really develop this technique, Kasimir lead the