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Glenns Falls / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.

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Glenns Falls / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.

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Print shows a view of the Hudson River at Glenns Falls with a building on an island and a bridge spanning the river and passing through the building; also shows people on the island.

No. 6 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
Information published with print: The building in the centre of the bridge is a toll-house, where the curious traveler may generally purchase some of the rarest specimens of fossil petrifactions [sic].
Irish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River's 315-mile course. 20 plates were engraved as aquatints by master printer John Hill and published between 1821 and 1825 by Henry Megarey in New York.

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01/01/1821
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Hill, John, 1770-1850, etcher
Wall, William Guy, 1792-, artist
Megarey, Henry I.
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Library of Congress
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