The image displays eight individual engravings arranged symmetrically on a single page. The top left engraving shows a City Tavern, a large two-story building with classical architectural features. To the right is a central vignette of a landscape with intricate foliage framing an empty center and a small stone bridge below. The top right engraving depicts a market scene with several buildings and a prominent arched structure in the center. In the middle left is an engraving labeled "Court-house" featuring a grand building with a detailed cupola set in a pastoral scene. The central engraving is a circular portrait of a woman and child. The middle right displays an architectural image labeled "Church" with a neoclassical building, columns, and surrounding structures under a cloudy sky. The bottom left engraving shows a smaller building with high boundary walls. Below, a colored landscape, labeled "Vue de Ticonderoga sur le Lac Champlain," illustrates a serene scene of a lake and hills with vibrant foliage. At the bottom right is a landscape with trees on the horizon and gently sloping hills in black and white with fine linework. The engravings are primarily monochromatic, except for the colored landscape which features greens, blues, and earth tones.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1794-1796
- Medium
- nine etchings, some with engraving and one with hand coloring, mounted to brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 4000 × 2785 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
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