Fort New Amsterdam on Manhattan

Earliest know view of New York City (inadvertently printed backward when an engraving of it was made in 1651) was probably drawn in 1626 by Kryn Frederycks, a civil engineer hired to lay out the original Dutch settlement at the foot of Manhattan. Frederycks depicted the colony's 30-odd houses and windmill accurately enough, but the imposing five-bastioned fortification - laid out by Frederycks himself in 1625 - was never completed.