Troy from Mount Ida / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I.R. Smith ; finished by J. Hill.
Summary
Print shows view looking across the Hudson River with Troy, New York, on the left.
No. 11 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
Preliminary drawing for this print in: PR 13 CN 1995:141.576.
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, engraver
Wall, William Guy, 1792-, artist
Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist
Megarey, Henry I.
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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