Machine for the Portage on the Susquehanna (Amérique Septentrionale – État de Pennsylvania)
Artwork Details
- Title: Machine for the Portage on the Susquehanna (Amérique Septentrionale – État de Pennsylvania)
- Series/Portfolio: Itinéraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des parties Latérales de l'Amérique dur Nord, No. 51 (A Picturesque Itinerary up the Hudson River, and to adjacent areas in North America, No. 51)
- Artist: After Jacques Gérard Milbert (French, Paris 1766–1840 Paris)
- Artist: W. G. Wallin (American?, active 1820s)
- Lithographer: Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (French, active 1820–72, died 1887)
- Printer: Henri Gaugain (French, 1799–after 1834)
- Date: 1828–29
- Medium: Lithograph on chine collé; proof before letters
- Dimensions: Image: 7 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (19.4 × 28.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 3/8 × 22 13/16 in. (41.6 × 58 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
- Object Number: 54.90.1570
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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