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The Old Church at Sleepy Hollow – Antique Wall Art

The Old Church at Sleepy Hollow, 1882 — antique engraving
The Old Church at Sleepy Hollow, 1882. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with The Old Church at Sleepy Hollow, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The old stone church at Sleepy Hollow, the Dutch Reformed building near Tarrytown, New York, gained lasting fame when Washington Irving set his 1820 tale in its neighborhood. This wood engraving reproduces a painting by A. Wordsworth Thompson and appeared in Harper's Weekly in May 1882, with the source photograph made by the Pach studio. Interest in the church and its churchyard grew as readers and artists sought out the landscape Irving had described. The engraver builds the stone walls and shadowed trees entirely from line work, so the tones depend on the density of the strokes.

Created / published1882
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesPhotographed by Pach from a painting by A. Wordsworth Thompson. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1882 May 20, p. 308. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,673 × 2,060 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108626

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