A view in Hudson's River of Pakepsey & the Catts-Kill Mountains, from Sopos Island in Hudson's River Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson dans Pakepsey et des Montagnes de Catts-Kill, prise de l'Isle de Sopos, situee dans cette riviere / sketch'd on the spot by his excellency, Governor Pownal ; painted & engraved by Paul Sandby. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 A view in Hudson's River of Pakepsey & the Catts-Kill Mountains, from Sopos Island in Hudson's River Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson dans Pakepsey et des Montagnes de Catts-Kill, prise de l'Isle de Sopos, situee dans cette riviere / sketch'd on the spot by his excellency, Governor Pownal ; painted & engraved by Paul Sandby.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A view in Hudson's River of Pakepsey & the Catts-Kill Mountains, from Sopos Island in Hudson's River Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson dans Pakepsey et des Montagnes de Catts-Kill, prise de l'Isle de Sopos, situee dans cette riviere / sketch'd on the spot by his excellency, Governor Pownal ; painted & engraved by Paul Sandby.
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This view of the Hudson is taken from Sopos Island, with the place called Pakepsey and the Catskill Mountains rising in the distance. Governor Pownal sketched the scene on the spot, and Paul Sandby worked those drawings into an etching that Thomas Jefferys published in London on May 20, 1761. The print was reissued in the atlas *Scenographia Americana* in 1768, when British interest in North American landscapes was growing. Today it shows the valley as it looked in the decade before the Revolution reached the region.
| Created / published | London : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by Thos. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martin's Lane, 1761 May 20. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1760-1770.Landscapes (Representations) 1760-1770.Etchings 1760-1770. |
| Notes | Title from item. Another impression in: Scenographia Americana. London : J. Bowles, 1768. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 558 (1768 printing). |
| Subjects | Rivers--New York (State)--1760-1770. Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--1760-1770. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,219 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120909 |
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