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Title
Hudson River - looking south from Battery Knox, West Point
Creator
Parsons, Charles, 1821-1910, artist
Stone, Benjamin Bellows Grant, 1829-1906, artist
Endicott & Co. (New York, N.Y.), printer
Goupil & Cie, publisher
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1859
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of a landscape view of the Hudson River looking south from the Knox Battery at the United States Military Academy on West Point in Orange County, New York, including views of the "Beverly House" and "Riding Hall" as captioned; boats visible on the river and near a dock at center; observers admire the river in foreground at bottom right.
"Sketched from Nature by B.G. Stone."--text, bottom left margin. "Entd. according to Act of Congress AD 1859, by B.G. Stone in the Clerks Office of the Dist. Court of the Southn. Dist. of N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Lith. by C. Parsons. Printed by Endicott & Co. N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Published by Goupil & Co. London, Paris, Berlin & New York."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 50.17 x 64.14 cm (19 3/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_VIEW_004032
490385
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3927
Language
English
Subject
Boats and boating--Pictorial works
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Pictorial works
Landscapes--Pictorial works
Military education--Pictorial works
Rivers--Pictorial works
West Point (N.Y.)--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Place
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation
priJLC_VIEW_004033

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