View Near Fort Montgomery. No. 18 of the Hudson River Port Folio

by John Hill, William Guy Wall, engraver

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Superb example of one of the greatest and earliest works devoted to the American landscape. Wall and Hill demonstrate in this view their great talent for investing apparently simple and random scenes with grandeur and intrigue. The focal point of the image is an unadorned raft with a number of men shown from so far away that there no distinguishing individual characteristics: they are mere figures floating down the calm, mirror-like river. The hills that slope down into the

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