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View near Jessups landing / painted by W.G. Wall ; finished by I. Hill.

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Print shows a view of the Hudson River as it passes through rolling hills with forest and pasture lands, and a dirt road with travelers on foot, near Jessups Landing in Corinth, New York.

No. 3 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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hudson river ny and n j corinth ny town rivers corinth town dirt roads meadows forests country life aquatints view jessups wall hill 1821 prints hudson river state line popular graphic arts william gilley john hill henry i megarey william guy wall ultra high resolution high resolution maps historical maps 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.
Gilley, William B., 1785?-1830.
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hudson river ny and n j corinth ny town rivers corinth town dirt roads meadows forests country life aquatints view jessups wall hill 1821 prints hudson river state line popular graphic arts william gilley john hill henry i megarey william guy wall ultra high resolution high resolution maps historical maps new york