BALLSTON SPRINGS

Art

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

BALLSTON SPRINGS

Entry/Object ID

L.2007.27

Description

Colored steel cut engraving of a busy street with a porticoed church at its end: figures wearing period clothing walk along a dirt road; a cart drawn by two oxen is stopped at the right; the street is lined on both sides with trees, wooden buildings line the street; a building on the lift has a sign that reads "VILLAGE HQ"; a steepled white church sits at the end of the road with a pediment supported by Doric columns; below the scene, on far left corner, is printed, "W.H.Bartlett."; on far right corner is printed, "J. Sands."; in center, the title is printed, "BALLSTON SPRINGS."; on bottom center is printed, "London, Published for the Proprietors, by Geo: Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, 1838."

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper (wove), Ink, Watercolor, Paper (wove), ink, watercolor

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

William Henry Bartlett

Attribution

Artist

Artist

James Sands

Attribution

Engraver

Manufacturer

George Virtue

Date made

1838

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

8-1/8 in

Width

10-7/8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (20.6 x 27.6 cm)

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Discoloration in a square surrounding the image; abrasion of surface below the image, center; loss of some ink; losses in bottom left and bottom right corners; soil throughout surface; accretion of small black hairs left of image; erased writing in pencil, bottom right; writing in pencil, top center; recto has accretion of black hairs; yellowing below image and along top and bottom edges; soil throughout.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

William Diebold

Notes

Former owner

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Diebold Box #45

Note Type

General Note

Note

Ballston Springs is plate number 61 in American Scenery: Or, Land, Lake and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. Publisher George Virtue commissioned William H. Bartlett to illustrate American Scenery, for which N.P. Willis wrote the text. Bartlett completed these watercolor drawings during two visits to America between 1836 and 1838. The drawings were engraved starting in 1837 by numerous English engravers and published in installments of four engravings. Subscribers could have the prints bound in two volumes in 1840 when the installments were complete.

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Administrative Office, Archive Room, Shelf O3, B4

Note Type

Department

Note

Library