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BENNETT, William James (1784-1844). Baltimore from Federal Hill. New York: H.I. Megarey, 1831.
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BENNETT, William James (1784-1844). Baltimore from Federal Hill. New York: H.I. Megarey, 1831.
The celebrated depiction of Baltimore by the “master of the aquatint view.” Bennett’s Baltimore is one of a “series of views of American cities which constitute the crowning point of his career as an artist and printmaker. Nineteen views make up the series, all buoyant in rendering and executed in aquatint on folio-size plates [...] The aquatints, rightfully considered the finest collection of folio views of American cities, provide abundant evocation of nineteenth-century America with particular emphasis on cities that owed their existence and prosperity to the presence of water... Bennett’s Baltimore view, declared the Baltimore American on September 28, 1831, has been ‘pronounced by judges to be the best print of the kind ever published in the United States’” (Deak p. 38). This copy, the second state, with the printer’s name. Stokes P. 1830–E-56.
Handcolored aquatint (500 x 645mm, sight size), (margins trimmed, some tears in the sky at center, small repairs in the margin, mounted on a sheet of wove; not examined out of frame). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 28-30 January 1988, sale 5680, lot 509.
The celebrated depiction of Baltimore by the “master of the aquatint view.” Bennett’s Baltimore is one of a “series of views of American cities which constitute the crowning point of his career as an artist and printmaker. Nineteen views make up the series, all buoyant in rendering and executed in aquatint on folio-size plates [...] The aquatints, rightfully considered the finest collection of folio views of American cities, provide abundant evocation of nineteenth-century America with particular emphasis on cities that owed their existence and prosperity to the presence of water... Bennett’s Baltimore view, declared the Baltimore American on September 28, 1831, has been ‘pronounced by judges to be the best print of the kind ever published in the United States’” (Deak p. 38). This copy, the second state, with the printer’s name. Stokes P. 1830–E-56.
Handcolored aquatint (500 x 645mm, sight size), (margins trimmed, some tears in the sky at center, small repairs in the margin, mounted on a sheet of wove; not examined out of frame). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 28-30 January 1988, sale 5680, lot 509.