1839 Bartlett print BARHYDT'S LAKE (NEAR SARATOGA), NEW YORK STATE, #23

Description: America2_23 1839 Bartlett print BARHYDT'S LAKE (NEAR SARATOGA), NEW YORK STATE, #23 Nice view titled Barhydt's Lake (Near Saratoga), from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approx. page size 28 x 21 cm, approx. image size 18 x 12 cm. From: N. P. Willis, American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature, publisher George Virtue, London. BARHYDT'S LAKE BARHYDT'S LAKE was formerly - between 1820-1835 - a great resort, having on its banks a public-house, kept by Mynheer Barhydt, an old Dutch settler, and the same one whose wife's adventure with the panther, {According to Chapter 13, it was a bear - BC.} have been before narrated. It was, until within a few years, part of a fine preserve of Dr. Russel H. Childs. This tarn is called a "lake" by courtesy, though it lacks only in size the beauties of Lakes Saratoga and Lonely. Sunk as deep into the earth as the firs shoot above it, it is surrounded by a wilderness of straight columnar pine shafts, which branch out at the top like round tables "spread for a banquet in the clouds." As late as 1835 it was filled with trout, though even then the shrewd old Dutchman foresaw the future scarcity of this fish. In the summer of that year a correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser writes: "At Barhydt's the sportsman is obliged to throw all the trout he may take back into their native element again, and pay by the hour for the privilege besides. He may, however, retain enough for his own dinner, provided he allows it to be cooked there and pays pretty well for that into the bargain." Jacobus Barhydt, who died in 1844, and is buried in the old Whitford graveyard - a mile south-east of the village - was, in many respects, a singular and original character. With all his astuteness, however, he sometimes overreached himself, as the following will show. When Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, was at Saratoga as the guest of Henry Walton, he offered Barhydt $20,000 for his place. Astounded at such a sum, Barhydt refused it - remarking that he "did not know whether Bonaparte was a fool or a knave." The old Dutchman could not conceive that the picturesqueness of his place had tempted the offer, and suspected some sinister design. "If it's worth that to you," he said, in closing the conversation, "it's worth that to me." William Henry Bartlett William Henry Bartlett (March 26, 1809 – September 13, 1854) was a British artist, best known for his numerous drawings rendered into steel engravings. Bartlett was born in Kentish Town, London in 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton (1771–1857), and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled throughout Britain, and in the mid and late 1840s he travelled extensively in the Balkans and the Middle East. He made four visits to North America between 1836 and 1852. In 1835, Bartlett first visited the United States to draw the buildings, towns and scenery of the northeastern states. The finely detailed steel engravings Bartlett produced were published uncolored with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. American Scenery was published by George Virtue in London in 30 monthly installments from 1837 to 1839. Bound editions of the work were published from 1840 onward. In 1838 Bartlett was in the Canadas producing sketches for Willis' Canadian scenery illustrated, published in 1842. Following a trip to the Middle East, he published Walks about the city and environs of Jerusalem in 1840. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be engraved. His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America, continued by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward and published around 1856. Bartlett’s primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Many views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles, and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed". Bartlett returning from his last trip to the Near East suddenly took ill and died of fever on board the French steamer Egyptus off the coast of Malta in 1854. His widow Susanna lived for almost 50 years after his death, and died in London on 25 October 1902, aged 91.

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