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The image shows a scene of a landscape with a cityscape in the distance across water, sailboats, cows grazing, two people seated, a large tree with autumn foliage, and detailed brushstrokes depicting a harmonious color palette of earthy and soft tones.
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The image shows a scene of a landscape with a cityscape in the distance across water, sailboats, cows grazing, two people seated, a large tree with autumn foliage, and detailed brushstrokes depicting a harmonious color palette of earthy and soft tones.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Baltimore Taken near Whetstone Point

William James Bennett

Date
published 1831
Medium
hand-colored aquatint with touches of engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 51 x 68.6 cm (20 1/16 x 27 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1985.64.119
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • aquatint
  • exterior
  • architecture
  • Cityscape
  • engraving
  • Baltimore
  • MD
Inscription

lower left in plate: Pain.d & Eng.d By; lower right in plate: W.J.Bennett. / PRINTED BY J NEALE. / AT ILLMAN & PILBROWS; lower center in plate: BALTIMORE TAKEN NEAR WHETSTONE POINT. / New York P ub by H.J.Megarey / Entered according to the Act of Congress in the Year 1831 by HenryJ. Megarey in t he Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.; cLv//in graphite: Old Hager / City of Baltimo. 2 pictures / Gisker's Seminary St Pauls St

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