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Jersey City Skyline Art

A suspension bridge on the left and a tiered crown on the right.

Jersey City Skyline Mug
Jersey City Skyline Mug
from $16.99
Jersey City Skyline Canvas Print
Jersey City Skyline Canvas Print
from $49.99

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Jersey City is one of the few drawings here that puts a bridge and a full tower wall in the same picture, and it gives the bridge the opening rather than the middle.

What is in the drawing

A small tower under a pointed cap starts the line at the far left above a squat block. The bridge comes next, its cables fanning down from a single pylon to a deck that runs flat across to a low span. Behind it the towers begin and do not stop: a group of slabs, one scored with horizontal courses, one cut by two long slots, one finishing in a shallow point. The tallest is plain and unbroken and holds the center without any crown at all. To the right of it a tower steps up through three tiers to a small squared cap, the only ornamented top in the drawing. The line then falls away through a plain slab and two low blocks to the base at the far edge.

Who buys it

This is bought by people who want the New York view without buying New York. It goes to commuters, to anyone who has lived on that side of the water, and as a leaving present when somebody moves out of the city. The bridge does more work than the towers with that buyer.

Mug or canvas

The ratio is 2.062 to 1 and coverage is 0.071, so it is a shade narrower than the mug band and on the dense side. The tower wall is the problem at small sizes: eight slabs of similar width read as one grey mass on an 11oz mug and the fanned cables thin out to nothing. At 18 by 12 the cables come back. Anything larger and the tiered crown becomes the thing you notice, which is the right outcome.

Other cities

The whole catalog runs to 258 cities. See every design.