New York from Heights Near Brooklyn [The Wall View from Brooklyn]
Hill’s expansive aquatint shows how undeveloped the Brooklyn side of the East River, opposite Manhattan, remained well into the nineteenth century. To sketch this view, the Irish watercolorist Wall stood near the present-day junction of Court Street and First Place, on a hill later leveled. The foreground pond served Cornell’s Mill and the windmill at right belonged to Pierrepont’s Gin Distillery. Hill, who worked in London before moving to Philadelphia in 1816, then New York in 1822, used his skills as an aquatint engraver to produce a series of prints that document New York’s appearance from the water.
Artwork Details
- Title: New York from Heights Near Brooklyn [The Wall View from Brooklyn]
- Etcher: John Hill (American (born England), London 1770–1850 Clarksville, New York)
- Artist: After William Guy Wall (Irish, Dublin 1792–after 1864 Ireland (active America))
- Published in: New York
- Date: 1823
- Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint
- Dimensions: Image: 15 1/2 × 24 3/4 in. (39.4 × 62.8 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
- Object Number: 83.2.2045
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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