View Near Fishkill (No. 17 of The Hudson River Portfolio). Artist: after William Guy Wall (Irish, Dublin 1792-after 1864 Ireland (active America)). Dimensions: Image: 14 1/16 x 20 3/16 in. (35.7 x 51.3 cm)Sheet: 19 x 24 1/2 in. (48.3 x 62.2 cm). Etcher: John Hill (American (born England), London 1770-1850 Clarksville, New York). Publisher: Henry J. Megarey (American, 1818-1845 New York). Series/Portfolio: The Hudson River Portfolio. Date: 1823-24.We here look north from Fishkill Landing, a few miles above West Point on the Hudson. John Agg's related text tells us that, "this section of country...is a hallowed spot to the historian; and clothed in all the sublime grandeur of her own inaccessible majesty, where Nature attracts, yet mocks, the puny efforts of human art, the painter and the poet will ever find their worthiest and most attractive models. There is a remarkable stillness and beauty in the view...the artist has contrived...to throw a sort of summer expression over the contou
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