View on the North River

by John Hill, Joshua H. Shaw, engraver, artist

$480 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare example of a print from an extremely rare work that is now considered to be a milestone in American printmaking ... a foundation book for American color-plate publication, being the first publication in the United States of large colored landscapes essentially scenic in effect Koke . This atmospheric image of the Hudson or North River is from a suite of twenty plates published under the general title 'Picturesque Views of American Scenery'. The original intention

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