On the Meadows, Orange County, New York – Whittredge, American Landscape c1869
€ 260
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Sheet size
29.1 × 40.7 cm (11.5 × 16.0 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14129-35
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Good. The paper shows noticeable light wrinkling and gentle undulation across the upper half, consistent with age and historic handling. The engraved image itself remains clear and well-preserved.
About this sheet
A pastoral view of Orange County, New York, an original steel engraving with light color after a painting by Worthington Whittredge, engraved by C. Rost and published in New York in 1869 in the series Gallery of Landscape Painters, American Scenery. The plate title "On the Meadows, Orange Co. N.Y." is engraved beneath the image.
Cattle stand and drink at the edge of a still pond in the foreground, their forms mirrored in the water, and a lone figure walks the bank at the left. Tall spreading elms and other trees fill the middle distance, with a farmhouse and low fields beyond them under a wide, softly clouded sky. The tinting is restrained, a pale wash of greens and warm browns over the engraved line.
Whittredge was a leading painter of the Hudson River School, known for quiet, open landscapes in which light and space matter more than incident. This plate belongs to that contemplative strand of American landscape painting, translated into the tonal range that steel engraving allowed.
