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

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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