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John Hill, after Joshua Shaw

View Near the Falls of Schuylkill, 1819

Not on View

portfolio Title

Picturesque Views of American Scenery

Medium

hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 33.5 × 25.72 cm (13 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
plate: 39.37 × 30.16 cm (15 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 54.29 × 35.08 cm (21 3/8 × 13 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Koke 1961, no. 41, i/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.819

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: 45 / 55 [strikethrough]

text at bottom in plate:
Painted by J. Shaw / Engraved by J. Hill / View Near the Falls of Schuylkill. / Published by M. Carey & Son Philadelphia.

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

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

1981: The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 13

Bibliography

1821: Shaw, Joshua, and John Hill. Picturesque Views of American Scenery. Philadelphia, PA: M. Carey and Son, 1821, no. 5.

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. 19-20, no. 41, i/ii.

1968: Making of the Nation, 1783-1860. New York: American Heritage, 1968, p. 131.