Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A view of the Falls on the Passaick, or Second River in the Province of New Jersey [copy 1].
Call Number
A West 24/Drawer 11/GC106/Half Folio/17th-19th c. GA 2005.01527
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc3t946477g
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1768.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1768
Extent
1 item
References
Stokes, Iconography, vol. I, p. 280
Six Remarkable Views in the Provinces of New-York, New-Jersey and Pennsylvania in North America, 1761. Re-issued as part of Scenographia Americana in 1768.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Color prints
Inscribed in plate, below: "The height of the Falls between Eighty & ninety feet the River about Eighty Yards broad. - Vue de l'Cataracte du Passaick ou seconde Riviere dans la Province du Nouveau Jersey, // La Hauteur de cette Chute est de 80 a 90 pieds, et la Largeur de la Riviere d'environ 40 Toises."
Signed in plate, lower center: "Sketch'd on the Spot by his excellency Governor Pownal".
Signed in plate, lower center: "Painted and Engraved by Paul Sandby".

Discovery Information

Subject
Landscapes—New Jersey—Paterson—1768
Passaic River (N.J.)—In art
Waterfalls—New Jersey—Paterson—In art
Landscapes—United States—1768
Rivers—New Jersey—In art
Landscapes—Northeastern States—1768
Landscapes—Middle Atlantic States—1768

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8d3e8773-c13d-40fb-bfd4-ef6a4998deb0/manifest