Description:
English Staffordshire plate decorated with a dark blue transfer print labeled "Pine Orchard House, Catskill Mtns. N.Y." and impressed "WOOD." Enoch Wood (1759-1840) worked with James Caldwell from 1790-1818. and in partnership with his three sons, Enoch, Joseph, and Edward unitl his death in 1840; the firm closed in 1846. This plate looks remarkably similar, and shows the same structure as in the pattern Catskill House, Hudson, but there are marked differences in the foliage below the house, and in the configuration of the road. Also, there is a horse and rider and a person walking in the road. This name, Pine Orchard House, was the original name given this resort, but because of its location, Catskill House became its adopted name. This view is adapted from an engraving of the "View of the Cattskill Mountain House, Hudson, N.Y." originally painted by the artist Thomas Cole and engraved in 1831. This famous hotel was built in 1823 on a precipice over 2200 feet above the Hudson River. In the Greek Revival style, it was fronted with thirteen white columns topped by gilded capitals. In its heyday it was as much a tourist attraction as Niagara Falls.
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