Object Number 1974.0031

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

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.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Thomas Pownall (Artist)
1722-02/05/1805
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 R.A. (Painter)-1809
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.

Peter Benazech (Etcher)
c. 1730-c. 1795

John Bowles, Robert Sayer, Thomas Jeffertys, Carington Bowles, and Henry Parker (Publisher)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

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.

Subjects

Landscape

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Etched with burin work, Engraved, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

17.03 (H) , 22.53 (W) , 13.71 (Image H) , 19.8 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

43.26 (H) , 57.23 (W) , 13.71 (Image H) , 19.8 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

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.

Publisher Summary

John Bowles, Robert Sayer, Thomas Jeffertys, Carington Bowles, and Henry Parker

Publication Date

1768

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

none

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Edition Notes

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.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[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.