{"id":7522,"date":"2016-04-24T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2016-04-24T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:20:51","slug":"1820-hudson-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=7522","title":{"rendered":"1820 Hudson River"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7523\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_7523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson-03814usm.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7523 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson-03814usm-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson-03814usm-1024x783.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson-03814usm-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson-03814usm-768x587.jpg 768w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson-03814usm.jpg 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_7523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No. 13 of the Hudson River Port Folio: View of the Hudson River from the shore; Hudson, NY across the river, 1820. Pub: Henry I. Megarey, NY. Engraver: John Hill. Painter: W.G. Wall. LOC: Prints and Photographs Division 03814<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In my searches for photos on the Library of Congress site, I found several in the Hudson River Port Folio of interest. From LOC:<\/p>\n<ul>\nIrish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River&#8217;s 315-mile course. 20 plates were engraved as aquatints by master printer John Hill and published between 1821 and 1825 by Henry Megarey in New York.<\/ul>\n<p>Vocabulary word for the day: acquaint:<br \/>\n<em>a print resembling a watercolor, produced from a copper plate etched with nitric acid.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my searches for photos on the Library of Congress site, I found several in the Hudson River Port Folio of interest. From LOC: Irish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=7522\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7529,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions\/7529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}