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John Hill came to the United States in 1816. His family, including his son John William Hill, followed three years later. This is one of the son’s earliest artworks, and his father must have been proud since he had trained the younger Hill as an apprentice.
Unlike J. W. Hill’s later topographical views, this depiction is in the tradition of earlier British views—the city is subsumed by the surrounding landscape and a tree with twisted trunks frames the view. Rays of light strike the capitol building in the distance. After the Erie Canal opened, in 1825, the city’s population grew to almost 25,000 by 1830, making Albany the eighth-largest city in the nation. John Hill engraved his son’s view, which James E. Betts and Henry Antice, stationers in New York City, published.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014
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