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View of the Hudson near West Point – Historic Photograph Print

View of the Hudson near West Point, [ca. 1817] — historic drawing
View of the Hudson near West Point, [ca. 1817]. 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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Step back in time with View of the Hudson near West Point, a historic drawing 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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View of the Hudson near West Point

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A note on the record gives this view its particular character: the artist drew it in company with the painter John Vanderlyn, who is said to have dozed on soldiers' graves near the gate of Lord's Tavern while Sally Lord watched for her brother's sloop coming up the river. West Point, with its Revolutionary-era fortifications, was a strategic and symbolic site on the Hudson, and sloops carrying cargo and passengers were a common sight there. Drawn in ink and watercolor around 1817, the sketch belongs to a period when American artists began treating the Hudson as a subject in its own right, decades before the Hudson River School. Its informal, personal tone suggests how such views were often made among friends rather than as formal commissions.

Created / published[ca. 1817]
Medium1 drawing : ink with watercolor.
GenreLandscape drawings American 1810-1830.Watercolors American Color 1810-1830.
NotesDrawn in company with Mr. Vanderlyn who was dozing on the soldiers graves near the gate to Lord's Tavern, Sally Lord looking after her Brothers sloop coming up. (DLC/PP-1995:141.593). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--1810-1830.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,452 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217649

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