Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A view of the Great Cohoes Falls, on the Mohawk River.
Call Number
A West 24/Drawer 05/GC106/Full Folio/17th-18th c. GA 2005.01516
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4t64h2109
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1768.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1768
Extent
1 item
References
Stokes, Iconography, vol. I, p. 285. From Scenographia Americana, 1768.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings
Inscribed: 'The Fall about Seventy Feet, the River near a Quarter of a Mile broad. Vue de la Grande Cascade de Cohoes, sur la Rivie're des Mohawks. // La Hauteur est llenviron 70 pied, 1 sa [sic] Riviere a pres ltun quart de Mille de large. // London. Printed for John Bowles at No 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at No 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at No 82 in Cornhill.'
Signed in plate: "Sketchtd on the spot by his Excellency Governor Pownal".
Signed: "Painted by Paul Sandby".
Signed in plate: "Engraved by Wm. Elliot".

Discovery Information

Subject
Waterfalls—New York (State)—In art
Mohawk River (N.Y.)—In art
Landscapes—United States—1768
Landscapes—New York (State)—1768
Rivers—New York (State)—In art
Landscapes—Northeastern States—1768

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File Count
1

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/207e3d2b-914f-43a8-b91e-437face11b5c/manifest