The Hudson-Fulton celebration. Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; commemorative of the tercentenary of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in the year 1609, and the centenary of the first use of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert Fulton in the year 1807
Exhibition catalogue issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1909 for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, cataloguing Dutch paintings and decorative art for museum visitors, collectors, and scholars. Halftone plates reproduce seventeenth-century Dutch portraits, landscapes, and interiors in soft brown-grey tones, with heavy shadow and pale open skies, useful for period portrait heads, cloud and coastline silhouettes, and dark-ground figure studies.
