西点军校（哈德逊河投资组合第16位） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	西点军校（哈德逊河投资组合第16位）
品名（英）	West Point (No. 16 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
入馆年号	1954年，54.90.1274(16)
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	John Hill【1770 至 1850】【美国人，出生于英国】
创作年份	公元 1825
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	图像: 14 1/16 x 20 3/16 英寸 (35.7 x 51.3 厘米) 页: 19 x 24 1/2 英寸 (48.3 x 62.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	从河的对岸可以看到西点军校和堡垒。约翰·阿格的相关文本告诉我们，"几乎没有一个旅行者去过高地，没有把注意力集中在……这个军事人才的摇篮的状况和特点上……以及未来荣耀和安全的多产源泉上。站在一个居高临下的高地上，在群山全景的中心，没有什么情况比抽象研究更好了。它周围的岩石似乎形成了一道永恒的屏障，阻止分心诱惑的侵扰；山区的空气有利于身体健康；永远占据统治地位的不间断的平静，促使头脑从必要性中运用这些资源，而从倾向性中，它可能不那么频繁地被征用。"这幅版画来自哈德逊河作品集，这是一座由艺术家、作家和出版商合作制作的美国版画纪念碑。1820年夏天，出生于爱尔兰的长城沿着哈德逊河游览并绘制草图，然后绘制了一系列大型水彩画。有人提议向订户发行同等规模的版画，每套四幅，约翰·鲁本·史密斯聘请处理盘子。几乎立刻，史密斯就被伦敦训练有素的水彩雕刻师约翰·希尔取代了，他完成了前四块印版，到1825年又制作了十六块。在接下来的十年里，Portfolio的流行激发了人们对美国景观的新欣赏，并为哈德逊河学校铺平了道路。
介绍（英）	The fort and military academy at West Point are viewed here from the opposite bank of the river. John Agg's related text tells us, "there is scarcely a traveler who has visited the Highlands, who has not concentrated his attention...on the situation and character of this nursery of military talent...and prolific fountain of future glory and security. Standing on a commanding elevation, in the centre of a panorama of mountains, no situation could be better calculated for all the purposes of abstract study. The rocks around it seem to form an eternal barrier against the intrusion of distracting temptations; the mountain air is propitious to bodily health; the unbroken calm which perpetually reigns, induces the mind to apply to those resources from necessity, which from inclination, it might less frequently place in requisition." The print comes from the Hudson River Portfolio, a monument of American printmaking produced through the collaboration of artists, a writer, and publishers. In the summer of 1820, the Irish-born Wall toured and sketched along the Hudson, then painted a series of large watercolors. Prints of equal scale were proposed—to be issued to subscribers in sets of four—and John Rubens Smith hired to work the plates. Almost immediately, Smith was replaced by the skilled London-trained aquatint engraver John Hill, who finished the first four plates, and produced sixteen more by 1825. Over the next decade, the popularity of the Portfolio stimulated new appreciation for American landscape, and prepared the way for the Hudson River School.