Bolling's Dam, Petersburgh, Virginia
1821
Artist, American, born England, 1770 - 1850
Publisher

Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.61 × 34.29 cm (9 11/16 × 13 1/2 in.)
plate: 30.16 × 38.42 cm (11 7/8 × 15 1/8 in.)
sheet: 34.45 × 52.55 cm (13 9/16 × 20 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.995
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Catalogue Raisonné
Koke 1961, no. 54, i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1961; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1977
Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
Bibliography
1821
Shaw, Joshua, and John Hill. Picturesque Views of American Scenery. Philadelphia, PA: M. Carey and Son, 1821, no. 18.
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, pp. 24-25, no. 54, i/ii.
Inscriptions
lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: mt x x / 35.00
text at bottom in plate:
Painted by J. Shaw. / Engraved by J. Hill. / Bolling's Dam, Petersburgh, Virginia. / Published by M. Carey & Son Philadelphia.
Wikidata ID
Q77008970