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View near Fishkill / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.
Summary
Print shows a view of the Hudson River from a roadway, with two men are tending fishing nets and stone buildings on the hillside above the road.
No. 17 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
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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Date
01/01/1821
Contributors
Hill, John, 1770-1850, etcher
Wall, William Guy, 1792-, artist
Megarey, Henry I.
Location
Fishkill (N.Y.), 41.53556, -73.89889
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
