[Cadets' monument at West Point] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Cadets' monument at West Point], [ca. 1820] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a05dd968f7f2-L.webp)
(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 [Cadets' monument at West Point], a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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This hand-colored etching shows the Cadets' Monument at West Point, a memorial on the academy grounds that shaped how cadets remembered classmates who had died. The United States Military Academy, founded in 1802, was still young when this image was made around 1820, and the post's bluffs above the Hudson River made it one of the most visited sites in the valley. The print comes from the John Rubens Smith Collection. Smith, an English-born draftsman, produced many topographical views of American places, and his watercolored etchings record how West Point looked to visitors in the early republic.
| Created / published | [ca. 1820] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching with watercolor. |
| Genre | Etchings Hand-colored 1810-1830. |
| Notes | Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4105-L. |
| Subjects | United States Military Academy--1810-1830. Monuments--New York (State)--West Point--1810-1830. Cadets--New York (State)--West Point--1810-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,417 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217653 |
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