HUDSON RIVER PORTFOLIO

Object/Artifact

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

HUDSON RIVER PORTFOLIO

Entry/Object ID

910.2 H78

Description

Large bound set of aquatint engravings [ADD DETAILS]

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

William Guy Wall

Attribution

Artist

Artist

John Hill

Attribution

Engraver

Date made

1821 - 1825

Other Names

Name Type

Other Title

Other Name

The Hudson River Port Folio

Material

Ink and watercolor on paper, Leather

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Overall condition of exterior covers is fair-good; considerable wear to all paper edges; On front cover: Wear extends ¼-1” into the front surface at all paper edges. Rubbing to leather spine at top and bottom. Faint oval areas of white discoloration on front face of leather spine. Area of fragility, middle of cover edge right side center with loose fibers from paper. Rubs to leather corners . Old vertical crease and slight warping 3/4 of the way from spine. Rubs and light scrapes to leather title inset on front cover. On back cover: Wear extends ¼- 1 ½” into the back surface at all paper edges. Vertical crease and some warping ¾ of the way from spine. Large losses to marbled paper in upper left corner. 5” vertical scrape from left cover edge toward spine. Semi-circular scrape at bottom edge. Smaller losses to marbled paper at lower left corner. Small loss at spine wrap, upper right side. Horizontal band of discoloration at center line across entire back cover. Areas of fragility with loose fiber at bottom edge near spine and at cover edge near upper left corner. Oval area of white discoloration on spine wrap in lower quarter. Rubs to leather corners and to top and bottom of spine. Small area of lifted marble paper at area of large loss, upper left corner. Inside condition is fair-good. Considerable transfer of prints to caption pages, foxing and significant edge discoloration, old repairs to pages throughout. Small split in (front) end paper, top edge. Discoloration of endpaper edges top and bottom right side. No. 1 caption page @ spine binding beginning to tear. Interior pages: Some warping along edges. Some dust/leather particles from binding along binding. Small tear to bottom edge of No. 6 Glenn’s Falls, and matching tear in caption page for No. 7. Tear in paper midway @ spine between No. 9 caption and illustration (Ft. Miller). Small hole/loss in paper at spine between No. 15 caption and illustration (Fishkill), visible on both pages. Crease in top left corner of caption page for No. 16 (West Point). Vertical crease across center of Palisades illustration and same across NY from Gov’s Island illustration. Small 1-½ inch tear at top edge of Gov’s Island illustration page. Inside back cover and end papers: Considerable color transfer of red from old leather along inside of spine and across left endpaper. Old “ghost” mark of acidic rectangle diagonal across left endpaper. Discoloration to upper and lower left endpaper corners.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Mr. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller

Notes

Former owner

Person or Organization

Mr. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller

Notes

Estate of

Related Entries

Notes

VC.2016.3 - Plate - Related

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Sets of prints from The Hudson River Portfolio are in the collection of the New-York Historical Society and displayed at Gracie Mansion, the residence of New York City's mayor [Jessa J. Krick, Collections Manager, 6/28/2016].

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 16A

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Department

Note

Library