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Sunnyside, Washington Irving’s home in Tarrytown, New York, on the Hudson River, became as beloved by Americans as the author himself. Built in stone, the house dates from the late seventeenth century and appears in many mid-nineteenth-century travel guides and prints. Irving remodeled it extensively, adding the Dutch gables after his purchase in 1835. On other changes to the house, he sought the advice of British artist—and neighbor—George Harvey. Comparison with a photolithograph of 1859 suggests that Currier & Ives romanticized the house, omitting, for example, a drainpipe from the second-story bathroom added by Irving. The subject was popular enough that the publisher issued a second print of Sunnyside. Like the Haunts of the Wild Swan, on view nearby, this print would be appropriate for use in a domestic interior, perhaps in a library or parlor.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014
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