Hudson River Landing [recto]

1796

Alexander Robertson

Associated Names
Alexander Robertson

Artist, American, 1772 - 1841

The image shows a coastal scene with a large building on the left, a sailboat anchored to the right, and another sailboat on the horizon. The illustration uses fine linework with a color palette of beige and gray. Rocks line the shore with hatching for texture, and hills are visible in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen with gray and black ink on laid paper torn from a book

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.1 × 29.1 cm (8 11/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1979.20.101.a

Associated Artworks

The image depicts a landscape from a slightly elevated point of view. The horizon line runs across the image and is low in the composition. It divides a range of distant hills slightly obscured by soft pencil lines. Close to us, there are gentle, curving lines suggesting a path leading toward the horizon, with a few simple structures nestled at the base of the hills. A row of slender trees partially obscures the buildings, providing a sense of scale and depth. The drawing, rendered in pencil, features faint and delicate lines with light shading to denote the terrain and foliage. The color palette is monochromatic, relying solely on the pencil's shade against the creamy off-white paper, which gives it a muted and serene appearance.

Highlands from Newburgh [verso]

Alexander Robertson

1794

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Hatch, John Davis. 100 American Drawings: Loan Exhibition from the Collection of John Davis Hatch. London: Heim Gallery, 1976, no. 18.

Inscriptions

lower right in pen and ink: 2[nd] September 179[6]; lower center in ink: (cropped, so unreadable); lower center in graphite: [Poughkeepsie?]; lower center verso in graphite: Highlands from [Newburgh?];

Watermarks

[J WHATMAN (cut off)] 1794

Wikidata ID

Q64534160

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