Doughty, Thomas:

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UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT FROM FORT CLINTON [caption title]. An apparently unrecorded early view of West Point, by the important early American landscape artist, Thomas Doughty (1793-1856). Viewed from Fort Clinton to the south, this illustration provides a distant view of the military academy's buildings, from relatively modest structures to a large four story building to the left. In the far right, an American flag is shown atop a tall pole. Two cadets, dressed in their greys, and their dog are shown in the foreground. Despite being rendered as an aquatint, Doughty's characteristically bucolic vision, serene sky, and delicate colors are on full display. "During a period when most artists could make a living only from portraiture, Doughty was one of the first American artists to devote himself to landscape painting...He quickly won critical acclaim for his lyrical and bucolic landscapes of the rivers and mountains of Pennsylvania, New York's Hudson River Valley, and New England....He was among the earliest artists to reproduce his landscapes as lithographs, in his popular series, Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports, a monthly published in Philadelphia with his brother, John" – WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART.This view was produced in 1826, less than a quarter century after the United States Military Academy's formal founding at West Point. We locate no copies of this print recorded at auction, on OCLC, or in reference sources. The only mentions w

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