Rapids Above Hadley's Falls. No. 4 of the Hudson River Port Folio

by John Hill, William Guy Wall, engraver

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

In the summer of 1820 the Irish-born and trained landscape artist William Guy Wall 1792-after 1864 went on an extended sketching tour of the Hudson River Valley and its environs. A selection of Wall's watercolors recording sights on his tour was engraved by the master printmaker John Hill 1770-1850 in The Hudson River Portfolio, published in New York City by Henry J. Megarey between 1821 and 1825. Long considered a cornerstone in the development of American printmaking and landscape

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