Museum Object Number1974.0031 |
Print (Etching)
A View in Hudson's River of the Entrance of what is called the Topan Sea. | Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson de l'entree counue sous le nom de Mer de Topan.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
Thomas Pownall (Artist)
Paul Sandby R.A. (Painter)
Peter Benazech (Etcher)
John Bowles, Robert Sayer, Thomas Jeffertys, Carington Bowles, and Henry Parker (Publisher)
Pownall first arrived in America in 1753 as the private secretary to Sir Danvers Obsorn, Governor of New York. William Pitt appointed him Governor of Massachuetts in 1757, a position he held until transferred to the governorship of South Carolina in February 1760, a position he held only nominally until his return to England in 1760.Paul Sandby's birthdate is given by various sources as 1725 on the authority of his son Thomas. By checking baptismal records, Ball (1985) has established the correct date as 1731.
1722c. 1730
02/05/18051809c. 1795
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1. Inscription; Bottom center beneath title; Sketch'd on the SPOT by his Excellency Governor Pownal. Painted by Paul Sandby. Engraved by Peter Benazech. _
2. Inscription; Bottom center; London Printed for Jn.\o Bowles at N.\o 13. in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at N.\o 53 in Fleet Street, Tho.\s Jefferys the Corner of S.\t Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at N.\o 69. in S.\t Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at N.\o 82. in Cornhill.
Landscape
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)
Etched with burin work, Engraved, Hand colored, Painted
17.03 (H) , 22.53 (W) , 13.71 (Image H) , 19.8 (Image W)
43.26 (H) , 57.23 (W) , 13.71 (Image H) , 19.8 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom. Plate H: 14.3 in. (36.4 cm). Plate W: 20.7 in. (52.7 cm). Chain interval: 2.5-2.7 cm; laid lines 8 per cm.
John Bowles, Robert Sayer, Thomas Jeffertys, Carington Bowles, and Henry Parker
1768
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
none
Hand colored with watercolors
Date is of first edition of Scenographia Americana or A Collection of Views in North America and the West Indies... (London: Printed for John Bowles et al., 1768). A second edition was offered by Bennett and Sayer in 1775.
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 29, pp. 79-80.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 11, pp.58-59.