Currently not on view
Eagle Cliff from Northeast Harbor across Somes Sound,
1859
William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900
x1988-138
A skilled draftsman and accomplished landscape painter, Haseltine avoided the romantic wilderness views of his early Hudson River School predecessors in favor of carefully rendered descriptions of many of the same motifs. He was especially regarded for his ability to faithfully capture geological formations, as in his view of Eagle Cliff on Mount Desert Island, Maine, or for his keen observation of local detail, such as his depiction of logging on the Delaware River at Belvidere, New Jersey.
Information
Title
Eagle Cliff from Northeast Harbor across Somes Sound
Dates
1859
Medium
Pen and grey ink and gray wash over graphite
Dimensions
38.2 x 54.8 cm. (15 1/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Miss Dorothy Willard, by exchange
Object Number
x1988-138
Place Depicted
North America, United States, Maine, Hancock County, Eagle Cliff
Signatures
Signed in red pencil, lower right: W.S.H.
Inscription
in ink, on verso lower right: maybe Delaware (sixties) | U.S. America - perhaps Hudson. | + Palisades [the latter above its location indicated with big caret] | 154
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
The artist's grandson, Marshall Haseltine; Ben Ali Haggin, New York; Davis & Langdale Co., New York.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1988," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 48, no. 1 (1989): p. 35-59., p. 52
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
