Hudson River Landing [recto]

Alexander Robertson, 1796

The image shows a coastal scene with a large building on the left, a sailboat anchored to the right, and another sailboat on the horizon. The illustration uses fine linework with a color palette of beige and gray. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Alexander Robertson ¹
Date: 1796 ¹
Medium: pen with gray and black ink on laid paper torn from a book ¹
Original: 4,851 × 3,654 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Davis Hatch Collection

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