Palisades No. 19 of the Hudson River Port Folio

by John Hill, William Guy Wall, engraver

$10,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

William Guy Wall shows us the Palisades in their stark splendor, allowing very little animation in his riverscape to detract from the majesty of the natural wonder. Sailboats, dwarfed by the height of the bluffs, are reflected in the water, as is the towering stone wall. Deak, 321 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

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