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Hill, John
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- New York From the Heights Near Brooklyn. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1828
- paper, ink, paint
Aquatint and engraving (19 3/4 x 26 7/8 in.; 502 x 681 mm), with hand-coloring by John Hill after William Guy Wall.
Literature
Déak, Picturing America, number 335, illustrated; Koke, Checklist of John Hill, number 96; Stauffer 615; Stokes, American Historical Prints c.1820-23-E-92; Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, vol. III, pp.557-579, illustrated plate 92
Catalogue Note
The view was made from a point in Brooklyn near the Anchor Gin Distillery of Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont (later Pierpont). The pond in the foreground was Cornell's mill pond. A contemporary newspaper article noted that the "views taken by Mr. Wall are the most accurate descriptions that we have seen. One of them is taken from Brooklyn Heights, near the Distillery of the Messrs. Pierponts, and the other from the Mountain at Weehawk. Mr. Wall at first made a drawing from the high land back of Hoboken…"