A View in Hudson's River of Pakepsey & the Catts-Kill Mountains, From Sopos Island in Hudson's River

Dateca. 1768

Engraver Paul Sandby (1725-1809)

Publisher Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

After work by Thomas Pownall (1722-1805)

OriginEngland, London

MediumLine engraving and etching on laid paper

DimensionsOverall: 17 1/8 × 23in. (43.5 × 58.4cm) Other (Plate): 36.2 × 53.3cm (14 1/4 × 21in.)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1968-436

DescriptionLower margin reads: "e.z./ A View in Hudson's River of Pakepsey & the Catts-Kill Mountains,/ From Sopos Island in Hudson's River./ Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson dans Pakepsey et des Montagnes de Catts-Kills,/ Prise de l'Isle de Sopos, situee dans cette RIviere./ Sketch'd on the SPOT by his Excellency Governor Pownal. Painted & Engraved by Paul Sandby./ London. Printed for John Bowles at N.o 13 Cornhill. Robert Sayer at N.o 53./ in Fleet Street. Tho.s Jeffreys the Corner of S.t Martins Lane in the Strand. Carington Bowles at N.o S.t Pauls Church Yard. and Henry Parker at N.o 82 in Cornhill."
Label TextThis print depicts a scene from the Hudson River sketched by Thomas Pownall who served as the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1757 and until 1760. It was included in a series of twenty-eight prints of American scenes published under the title Scenographia Americana in 1768. The images range widely in content and geographical location, depicting the military structures at Port Royal in Guadeloupe as well as the wilderness of Passaic Falls in New Jersey. Many of the prints commemorated sites where the English were victorious during the Seven Year’s War, and were the first, large, accurate, and elaborately engraved series of views of America.