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John Hill, after Joshua Shaw

Bolling's Dam, Petersburgh, Virginia, 1821

Not on View

portfolio Title

Picturesque Views of American Scenery

Medium

hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Koke 1961, no. 54, i/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.995

Artists / Makers

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

Joshua Shaw (artist after) American, born England, 1776 - 1860

M. Carey & Son (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

(Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1961; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Goodspeed's Book Shop

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.