Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Landscapes of a long since gone natural world in the state of New York. From the “The Hudson River Portfolio” which came out in the 1820’s. William Guy Wall, watercolorist.
Hadley’s Falls. Number 5. 1821-1822. Aquatint printed in color with hand coloring. John Rubens Smith and John Hill, engravers. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. In the public domain. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/418415View from Fishkill Looking To West-Point. Number 15. 1825. Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring. John Rubens Smith and John Hill, engravers. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In the public domain. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/418425The Palisades. Number 19. 1823-24. Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring. John Hill, engraver. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In the public domain. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/418428.
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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