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[Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River] – Historic Photograph Print

[Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River], [1778?] — historic drawing
[Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River], [1778?]. Historic drawing 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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This long, narrow watercolor unrolls the American encampments along the Hudson River at West Point, New York, a site that the Continental Army fortified to command the river. The date of about 1778 is an estimate, since the title was devised by Library staff rather than taken from an inscription. In those years West Point was a key post, where a chain strung across the river was meant to block British naval traffic moving north. The panorama is worth studying for its record of camp placement and the river approaches that made the ground so strategically valuable.

Created / published[1778?]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor ; 142.7 x 27.7 cm (sheet)
GenrePanoramic views 1770-1780.Watercolors 1770-1780.Drawings Color 1770-1780.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. 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. 557.
SubjectsMilitary camps--American--New York (State)--1770-1780. Rivers--New York (State)--1770-1780. West Point (N.Y.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,049 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175905

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