View near Jessups landing / painted by W.G. Wall ; finished by I. Hill.
Summary
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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Date
01/01/1821
Contributors
Hill, John, 1770-1850, etcher
Wall, William Guy, 1792-, artist
Megarey, Henry I.
Gilley, William B., 1785?-1830.
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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