Description:
distant view of river in center image from top of a mountain, tree at front right on a promontory, smaller trees in front left, sky with a few clouds in distance; landscape; vegetation; water
Label Text:
This northward view of the Connecticut River from Mount Holyoke is one of many works that were created after prints by the English artist William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854), who was commissioned to travel to the United States in 1863 to make drawings of American scenic views and landmarks. The drawings, mostly sites in New England and New York State, were published in 1840 in the volume "American Scenery". Many of the artists who based their works on Bartlett altered topographical details in their paintings, whether for artistic effect or, more frequently, for lack of firsthand knowledge about their subjects. This unidentified artist, presumably unfamiliar with the area, has reduced the towns of Hadley and Northampton to rows of simple boxlike buildings on thin strips of land inserted between the bends of the river.
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