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WEST POINT - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Related Place; NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Hand-colored engraving titled 'West Point and the Highlands.' Book illustration by artist Henry Fenn published in “Picturesque America, or The Land We Live In.” The image shows a group of West Point cadets loading a cannon. There is a woman amongst the group holding an umbrella with her back to a viewer. The fortification overlooks the Hudson River, which is filled with various types of ships. The mountains of the Hudson Highlands rise on either side of the river. NOTES: From “Picturesque America, or The Land We Live In” volume 2, published in New York in 1874 by D. Appleton and Co., 549 and 551 Broadway. William Cullen Bryant edited the book. The print faces page 9. The engraving first appeared in “Appleton’s Journal” on September 11, 1869, and was reused for the Picturesque America publication. EXCERPT: From Appleton’s Journal, pages 119-120, “The beautiful view of the Highlands, which accompanies this number of the JOURNAL, scarcely requires description in these days of universal travel, when the Hudson and its beauties are household words, and have been brought, by rail and steamer, almost to the very door of every American. And yet, how can we pass this picture by without at least a reference to “Old Cro Nest,” famed in fable and in song, lifting its storm-beaten head on our left, or beautiful Cold Spring, to the right, with its village-church spire showing just above the surrounding trees, and its foundry - invisible, to be sure - yet famous, the world round, for its Parrott guns, one of which, grimly frowning through the embrasure at the extreme left of the picture, seems to threaten Newburg in the distance, the glimmer of whose spires and lofty buildings, like little flakes of snow, assures us that, under the shadow of those cloudy hills, there nestles one of America’s villages gems.”
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