United States Military Academy, Looking South, 1828

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper mounted to paperboard

Dimensions

image: 30.16 × 46.99 cm (11 7/8 × 18 1/2 in.)

sheet (trimmed): 32.39 × 47.15 cm (12 3/4 × 18 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Koke 1961, no. 131, i/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.861

Artists / Makers

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

George Catlin (artist after) American, 1796 - 1872

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a78996 [twice]

text at bottom in plate:
Drawn by G. Catlin / Engraved, Printed, & Colored, by J. Hill. / To the Cadets of the West Point Military Academy, this print is respectfully dedicated, [the rest of text was trimmed]

Provenance

Stanley S. Wohl, Annapolis, Maryland; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Wohl, Stanley S.

Exhibition History

1956: Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial, Treasury Building, Washington, DC, 1956-1957

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

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, pp. 56-57, no. 131, i/ii.