Rapids Above Hadley's Falls

1822-1823

John Hill

Artist, American, born England, 1770 - 1850

Henry J. Megarey

Publisher, American, active 1818 - 1845

William Guy Wall

Artist After, Irish, 1792 - 1864 or after

John Hill, after William Guy Wall

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.817

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Koke 1961, no. 83, i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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.

Wikidata ID

Q77011967

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