West Point / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.
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Print shows a view of the Hudson River from above the banks opposite of the military academy at West Point, New York. Also shows men climbing among the rocks, a man standing on the shore near a rowboat carrying three men, and across the river a sidewheel steamship. Above the river, on the far side, are the buildings of West Point, with rolling hills in the background.
No. 16 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
Irish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River's 315-mile course. 20 plates were engraved as aquatints by master printer John Hill and published between 1821 and 1825 by Henry Megarey in New York.
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