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[View of Catskill Mts.] – Vintage Photo Print

[View of Catskill Mts.] — historic print
[View of Catskill Mts.]. Historic print from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [View of Catskill Mts.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Printed as a page 11 illustration in an 1888 Boston edition of Washington Irving's *Rip Van Winkle*, this view of the Catskill Mountains sets the legend's landscape before the reader. Irving first published the story in 1819 as part of *The Sketch Book*, and he placed its hero in the Catskills above the Hudson River, so later illustrators often used such scenery to establish the tale's mood. The unverified catalog notes also mention children, kites and fishing, which hint at a lighter, pastoral touch in the mountain setting.

Medium1 print.
Notes1888
SubjectsIllus. in: Irving's Rip Van Winkle, illus. by Frank T. Merrill, Boston, 1888, p. 11. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; N.Y.--Catskill Mts.; Kites; Fict. Char.; Fishing (Sport); PI--Works; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,045 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126486

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