1839 Bartlett print HUDSON CITY & CATSKILL MOUNTAINS (#35)

Description: America2_35 1839 Bartlett print HUDSON CITY & CATSKILL MOUNTAINS (#35) Nice view titled View of Hudson City and the Catskill Mountains , from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. page size 26 x 20.5 cm, approx. image size 18 x 13 cm. From: N. P. Willis, American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature, publisher George Virtue, London. Hudson city, seat (1786) of Columbia county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the east bank of the Hudson River, 34 miles (55 km) south of Albany. In 1662 a Dutch settler, Jan Frans van Hoesen, purchased the tract from the Mahican (Mohican) Indians; it was called Klauver Rachen (Clover Reach) and later Claverack Landing. Permanently settled by New Englanders in 1783, it was renamed at its incorporation (1785) for the explorer Henry Hudson, who had supposedly landed there in 1609. It developed as a boatbuilding river port, became a port of entry (1790), and was a whaling centre until the early 19th century. Manufactures include plastic fasteners, vaporizers and heating pads, buttons, and loading-dock equipment. A museum of fire-fighting equipment is attached to the Volunteer Firemen's Home. Columbia-Greene Community College, part of the State University of New York system, was founded in 1966 in Hudson. Olana, 5 miles (8 km) south, is the impressive Victorian mansion-estate of the Romantic landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). President Martin Van Buren's retirement mansion is a nearby national historic site. Rip Van Winkle Bridge, 3 miles (5 km) southwest, spans the river to Catskill. Pop. (2000) 7,524; (2010) 6,713. Catskill Mountains dissected segment of the Allegheny Plateau, part of the Appalachian Mountain system, lying mainly in Greene and Ulster counties, southeastern New York, U.S. Bounded north and east by the valleys of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, respectively, the mountains are drained by headstreams of the Delaware River and by numerous small creeks. Many peaks rise more than 3,000 feet (900 metres) abruptly above adjacent valley floors, with the highest being Slide Mountain (4,204 feet [1,281 metres]). The northern portion along the Mohawk is called the Helderberg Hills. The much higher elevations in the Catskills compared to the surrounding area are mainly due to the durability of the top layers of sandstone and conglomerate. The unusually steep-sided valleys and massive, rounded uplands comprise a natural wilderness within easy reach of New York City. Heavily mantled with mixed broad-leaved and coniferous forests, the area's scenery is made more spectacular by deeply scored cloves (rocky glens). Tourism and outdoor recreation are popular in Catskill Park (1,100 square miles [2,850 square km]), which includes the state-owned Catskill Forest Preserve (450 square miles [1,165 square km]), and in the more accessible, privately owned parts of the mountains. Artificial lakes in the Catskills include Ashokan, Pepacton, Neversink, Rondout, and Schoharie reservoirs, which are important to the water supply of metropolitan New York. The mountains were made famous through Washington Irving's short stories about the legendary Rip Van Winkle, who supposedly took his long nap near the town of Catskill, on the Hudson River at the eastern entrance to the park. The name Catskill is derived from the Dutch Kaaterskill (“Wildcat Creek”), as one of the better-known nearby streams is called. 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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