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John Hill, after William Guy Wall

Hudson, 1825

Not on View

series Title

Hudson River Portoflio

Medium

hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 36.83 × 54.93 cm (14 1/2 × 21 5/8 in.)

sheet: 45.72 × 63.34 cm (18 × 24 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Catalogue Raisonné

Koke 1961, no. 91, i/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.594

Artists / Makers

John Hill (engraver) American, born England, 1770 - 1850

William Guy Wall (artist after) Irish, 1792 - 1864 or after

Henry J. Megarey (publisher) American, active 1818 - 1845

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a91238 / amx-

text at bottom in plate:
Painted by W. G. Wall. / Engraved by J. Hill. / HUDSON. / No. 13 of the Hudson River Port Folio / Published by Henry I. Megarey New York.

Provenance

(Kennedy & Co, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

1956: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 1956

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1981: The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 14

Bibliography

1961: Koke, Richard J. A Checklist of the American Engravings of John Hill (1770-1850), Master of Aquatint: Together with a List of Prints Colored by Him and a List of His Extant Original Drawings. New York: New York Historical Society, 1961, p. 39, no. 91, i/ii.