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Troy from Mount Ida / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I.R. Smith ; finished by J. Hill.

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Troy from Mount Ida / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I.R. Smith ; finished by J. Hill.

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Print shows view looking across the Hudson River with Troy, New York, on the left.

No. 11 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
Preliminary drawing for this print in: PR 13 CN 1995:141.576.
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, engraver
Wall, William Guy, 1792-, artist
Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist
Megarey, Henry I.
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Library of Congress
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