File:Fort Edward - painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill. LCCN2011661794.tif

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English: Title: Fort Edward / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by J. Hill. Abstract/medium: 1 print : aquatint ; 45.8 x 62.5 cm (plate), 51.2 x 70.2 cm (sheet)
Date between 1821 and 1825
date QS:P,+1821-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1821-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Author Hill, John, 1770-1850, etcher; Wall, William Guy, 1792-approximately 1864, artist; Megarey, Henry I.
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Popular Graphic Arts
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  • Title from item.
  • No. 10 of the Hudson River Port Folio.
  • Stamped lower right: Map Division, Library of Congress, Nov. 18, 1915.
  • Fort Edward held strategic importance during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, but by the time Wall painted Fort Edward its military function had ceased.
  • 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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popular graphic arts · prints and photographs division
Subject
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hudson river (n.y. and n.j.) · fort edward (n.y.) · rivers · new york (state) · fort edward · meadows · buildings · dirt roads · country life · reflections · aquatints
Place
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New York (State)--Fort Edward
Genre
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Aquatints--1820-1830

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