Currently not on view
The Delaware at Belvidere,
1860
William Stanley Haseltine, American, 1835–1900
1995-60
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
The Delaware at Belvidere
Dates
1860
Medium
Pen and grey ink and grey wash over graphite
Dimensions
38.9 x 56.5 cm. (15 5/16 x 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Leonard Milberg, Class of 1953, in honor of his son, David J. Milberg, Class of 1985
Object Number
1995-60
Place Depicted
United States, New Jersey, Belvidere
Signatures
Signed and dated in grey ink, lower left: W.S.H. | Delaware - at Belvidere | Oct 23d-1860
Inscription
on verso, lower left: Photographed in Paris Bernes Maronteaux 36 Av Chatillon
on verso, lower right: U.S. America – 98
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Subject
Estate of the artist; Ben Ali Haggin, Inc., New York, as dealer; purchased from Paul W. Worman, New York. Dealer’s number in pencil on verso upper right: DLA-498y.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1995," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 56, no. 1/2 (1997): p. 36-74., p. 55
- 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.)
