Rapids above Hadleys Falls / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.

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Rapids above Hadleys Falls / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.

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Print shows a view of rapids on the Hudson River with cliffs along one side; also shows a man fishing off a bank in the foreground.

No. 4 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
Hadley's Falls was about half a mile downriver from the commercial center of Jessup's Landing, now known as Corinth, New York, located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.
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, etcher
Wall, William Guy, 1792-, artist
Megarey, Henry I.
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Library of Congress
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