Photographs and clippings relating to Robert Havell's painting View of Sing Sing on the Hudson

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Photographs and clippings relating to Robert Havell's painting View of Sing Sing on the Hudson

[ca. 1970]

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Photo of inscription on reverse of Havell's painting VIEW OF SING SING ON THE HUDSON, and a clipping illustrating the painting. The inscription dates this painting and by implication dates a larger version of it in the New York Historical Society.

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Havell, Robert, 1793-1878

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Robert Havell, Jr., is best known as the aquatint engraver of John James Audubon's Birds of America (4 volumes, 1827-1839), collaborating on the project with his father, Robert Havell, Sr., who died in 1832. The plate production for Audubon was of such a great magnitude that the Havell's had to hire 50 new staff and move to a larger premises at 77 Oxford Street, which they named the Zoological Galleries. The Havell's also dabbled as merchants of natural history goods, including stuffed birds. Af...

Berry-Hill Galleries

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Art gallery, New York, N.Y.; acquired a painting by Robert Havell, a painter and engraver, Tarrytown, New York, b. 1793, d. 1878. From the description of Photographs and clippings relating to Robert Havell's painting View of Sing Sing on the Hudson, [ca. 1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291282 ...