Collecting Prints of Bath - Aquaduct Bridge Claverton - John Hill Aquatint

Bath - Aquaduct Bridge Claverton c1805. Aquatint and etching with original hand colouring. London, Publish'd 1805 by William Miller, Abermarle Street. Original print on watermarked J. Whatman 1801 wove paper. Superb aquatint by John Hill after the painter and draughtman John Claude Nattes. If you don't know the work of John Hill you really are missing something . . . 

John Hill (1770-1849) began his career as an aquatint engraver of landscapes in his native London, publishing a series of views after the paintings of J.M.W. Turner and others. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1816 and continued engraving for the next 20 years, first in Philadelphia and later in New York. Hill is well known for his pair of New York City prints New York From Weehawk and the companion view New York from Heights near Brooklyn after views by William Guy Wall (1792-1864). He also did the engravings after views by Wall for the Hudson River Portfolio (1821-1825), a set of 20 hand-colored aquatint views along over 200 miles of the Hudson River, from New York City to the Adirondacks. Published by Henry J. Megarey in New York with text by John Agg, the Hudson River prints are considered amongst the finest produced in 19th-century America. Hill is also renowned for his 20 hand colored aquatint views after paintings by Joshua Shaw published between 1820 and 1821 in what is familiarly called The Landscape Album. His son and grandson, John William Hill and John Henry Hill, also became noted landscape painters.  More on Aquaduct Bridge Claverton Bath.