Idyllic Gowanus, Oil on Canvas
While doing a little background on the canal/cruising Wikipedia, we stumbled
across this:
Given its current state
[http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/for-local-residents-a-mission-to-clean-up-the-gowanus-canal/]
, one could be forgiven for not recognizing as the Gowanus, but apparently in
1851, the area looked enough like this to inspire British/