Rapids Above Hadley's Falls, 1822-1823

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portfolio Title

Hudson River Portfolio

Medium

hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 35.24 × 53.18 cm (13 7/8 × 20 15/16 in.)
plate: 45.4 × 61.6 cm (17 7/8 × 24 1/4 in.)

sheet: 48.58 × 63.98 cm (19 1/8 × 25 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Koke 1961, no. 83, i/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.817

Artists / Makers

John Hill (artist) 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 right corner in graphite by unknown hand: W. 40-

text at bottom in plate:
Printed by W.G. Wall / Engraved by J. Hill / Rapids Above Hadleys Falls. / No. 4 of the Hudson River Port Folio / Published by Henry I. Megarey New York.

Provenance

(Weyhe Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Weyhe Gallery

Exhibition History

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

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. 36, no. 83, i/ii.