East Port and Passamaquaddy Bay, Plate 48 from Volume II of N.P. Willis' American Scenery, or Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
Charles Cousen, English, 1813 - 1889
after William Henry Bartlett, English, 1809 - 1854
1839
Hand-colored steel engraving on wove paper
Image: 4 7/8 × 7 1/16 in. (12.4 × 18 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 in. (20.4 × 25.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.X.986.96
Publisher
George Virtue, London
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 10.75; lettered, below image, lower left margin: W.H. Bartlett.; lettered, below image, lower right margin: C. Consen.; lettered, below image, lower center margin: EAST PORT AND PASSAMAQUODDY BAY.; lettered, below image, lower left: PORT DE L'EST ET BAIE DE PASSAMAQUODDY; / VUS DE LUBEC POINT, MAINE.; lettered, below image, lower center: London, Published for the Proprietors, by Geo: Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, 1839.; lettered, below image, lower right: OST HAVEN UND DIE BAI PASSAMAQUODDY VON LUBECBERG / IM STAATE MAINE GESHEHN
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 40, fig 24.
Provenance
Source unknown.
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