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William Strickland
after Thomas Birch
View of the Water Gap and Columbia Glass Works, Delaware River, between 1800 and 1854
aquatint and etching printed in color on wove paper
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Artist William Strickland, American, 1787-1854
Artist after Thomas Birch, American, 1779-1851
Title
  • View of the Water Gap and Columbia Glass Works, Delaware River
Date between 1800 and 1854
Medium Aquatint and etching printed in color on wove paper
Dimensions Plate: 15 1/4 × 21 1/8 inches (38.7 × 53.7 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches (39.4 × 54 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund
Accession Number 61.247
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: T. Birch pinx.
Inscribed, lower right: Strickland sc.
Inscribed, center lower margin: View of the Water Gap and Columbia Glass Works River Delaware
(Kennedy Galleries, Inc.);
1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 18.