Item 61: Colored Engraving titled, “The GREAT BEND of the Susquehanna River,” by Joseph Yeager (removed to Print Box #5), ca. 1811
Item — Box: 21, Folder: 61
Dates
- Created: ca. 1811
Creator
- Yeager, Joseph, c. 1792 - 1859 (Person)
Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Colored Engraving
Condition Note:
Fair
Measurements:
8 in. x 5 ⅛ in.
Title:
The GREAT BEND of the Susquehanna River, in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
Description:
The Susquehanna River forms the foreground of the colored print. People are pitching canvas in front of the river. Some people row on a boat in the Susquehanna. In the background there are some houses and mountains. The Susquehanna River is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and covers much of Pennsylvania. It stretches 444 miles long, making it the longest river on the East Coast, and the 16th largest river in the United States. The river is made up of two main branches including the North Branch and the West Branch. The river drains 27,500 square miles that includes much of Pennsylvania. The river empties into the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay.
This print was created by Joseph Yeager; this subject was later illustrated by Edward Lamson Henry.
According to Valley Views of Northeastern Pennsylvania by Gilbert S. McClintock, “At the Great Bend the old turnpike road to Newburg crossed the river, and wound its way up the valley formed by Salt-Lick Creek. This drawing was copied by T. J. Greenbanks in Views of American Scenery. (Philadelphia, 1828.)
Edward Lamson Henry (1841-1919) made a drawing and a painting of the Great Bend in 1858, both of which are in the collection of the New York State Museum, Albany.”
Joseph Yeager was a Philadelphian artist that “[...]used engraving, mezzotint, and aquatint to make sophisticated, large-scale prints after compositions by pioneering Philadelphia genre painter John Lewis Krimmel.”
Mentioned in the description of this piece, Edward Lamson Henry, also known as E. L. Henry, was born on January 12, 1841 in Charleston, South Carolina. At the young age of seven, his parents died and he went to live with his cousins in New York City. He began to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He went to Paris in 1860, where he studied with Charles Gleyre and Gustave Courbet. This was roughly at the same time as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley.
Location:
Susquehanna River, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
The GREAT BEND of the Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
In Pencil: J-
Creator
- Yeager, Joseph, c. 1792 - 1859 (Person)
- Henry, Edward Lamson, 1841 – 1919 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu