who illustrated this?
Saul Steinberg
View of the World from 9th Avenue
Saul Steinberg 
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View of the World from 9th Avenue [SEP] Introduction
View of the World from 9th Avenue (sometimes A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World, A New Yorker's View of the World or simply View of the World) is a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of "The New Yorker". The work presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of the world showing Manhattan as the center of the world. "View of the World" has been parodied by Columbia Pictures, "The Economist", "Mad Magazine", and "The New Yorker" itself, among others. The work has been imitated and printed without authorization in a variety of ways.