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Issued as number seventeen in the Portfolio, this view includes an eighteenth-century stone house on the right, as well as a man and a child on the embankment, perhaps with fishing nets. The overall impression sought and achieved by Wall in the views of the Hudson River is tranquillity. In his text, Agg commented on the “remarkable stillness and beauty” and noted the view was “inimitably true to nature.” The publisher’s prospectus for the Hudson River Portfolio advised subscribers that there would be six installments, with four plates and text by John Agg in each one. Only five installments appeared, suggesting that the project faltered because of a lack of patronage.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014

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