43.0389°N / 87.9065°W · United States
The river does not reach the lake where nature put it. Three rivers gather here into a single harbour, and the opening they leave by today was cut in the 1850s, about half a mile north of the old one.
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The lake takes the whole right-hand side, its shore an almost straight line from top to bottom. Three rivers come towards it from three directions: the Milwaukee from the north, winding down through downtown; the Menomonee from the west, along a broad valley of canals and slips; the Kinnickinnic from the south-west. The first two meet just south of the engraved point, the third joins the harbour a little lower down, and the water leaves for the lake through one short, straight channel.
South of that channel, between the harbour and the lake, lies a long strip of land carrying port terminals: Jones Island. Northward, the shore becomes a ribbon of parks. Two things barely show: the breakwaters out in the lake, no more than a hair at this distance, and the rail lines of the valley, drawn too pale to count.
Water is the lake on the right and three narrow rivers, all in one ink. Choose it deep enough that the rivers, thin where they wind, still read against the streets. Green follows the lakeshore in a ribbon to the north and dots the neighbourhoods; a light green is enough. The slips and basins of the harbour take care of themselves: their straight edges against the winding rivers upstream are the contrast of this sheet.
Portrait, the lake down the right, the three rivers converging just below the middle, the engraved point slightly above the confluence. The shore north and south of the frame leaves first, without loss. Pull back and the three valleys lengthen while the harbour shrinks; come closer and the harbour gains its slips, but the winding course of the Milwaukee to the north leaves the sheet.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. Three rivers meet here, and the caption can say which one you followed: a bridge over the Milwaukee, a street above the Menomonee valley, a pier on the lake.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.
Opens the colour workshop with these 16 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.
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In the first years of the town, the Milwaukee, once joined by the Menomonee, angled south behind a thin, low-lying peninsula, and where their joint flow broke through it into Lake Michigan, the Kinnickinnic joined them. In 1837 federal engineers completed the first land and water surveys of the site and recommended a straight cut through the northern end of the peninsula, about half a mile above that natural outlet. The whole figure of the sheet comes from that convergence: three valleys drawn towards a single opening.
The straight cut was completed in the late 1850s: a new entrance to the lake, dug through the northern end of the peninsula. The short straight channel between the harbour and the lake is that cut. The river’s first outlet lay further south, near the lower end of today’s inner harbour, and what remained of the peninsula south of the cut is Jones Island, the long strip of port land between the harbour and the lake.
Over the twentieth century, the original estuary was cleared of a residual island, sandbars and debris, and by the 1930s it had become a fully working inner harbour. On the sheet, the last stretches of the rivers are drawn with straight banks, right-angled slips and rectangular basins, while upstream the Milwaukee still winds.
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The river moved its mouth once, and stayed. If you have moved since, keep the corner you came from: the sheet will hold it as it was.
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