Bailey, Sarah F. (sold)
Sarah F. Bailey (October 27, 1846 - 19??) was born Sarah F. Kelly. Sarah was born in Vermont, and little is known of her early life or education. In 1871, she married the bird's-eye view maker Oakley Hoopes Bailey (1843 - 1947). Her name is associated as the artist of a single bird's-eye view, of Watkins Glen, New York, drawn around 1872 and published by Bailey and Fowler. She is one of the very few female view artists active during the Golden Age of American Bird's-Eye Views.
'One of the grandest, most strikingly wonderful and beautiful freaks of nature of its kind in the known world' - Bailey
Bird's Eye View of Watkins, N.Y.
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This is a striking Sarah F. Bailey chromolithograph bird's-eye view map of Watkins Glen, located at the southern tip of Seneca Lake, of New York's stunning Finger Lakes. This view is notable as being the only 19th-century American bird's-eye view we are aware of to be drafted by a woman, Sarah Bailey, wife of prominent viewmaker O. H. Bailey. When this view was made, Watkins Glen, which refers more specifically to the stunning river gorges just west of Watkins, was widely promoted as a natural wonder. (more details)