Baker's Falls (No. 8 of The Hudson River Portfolio), 1823–24, Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two (Koke), Image: 14 1/16 x 20 3/16 in. (35.7 x 51.3 cm), Prints, after William Guy Wall (Irish, Dublin 1792–after 1864 Ireland (active America)), The accompanying text notes that these falls are 'situated within a mile of the beautiful village of Sandy Hill [now called Hudson Falls]...their total height...estimated at upwards of seventy feet...There is no perpendicular cataract, neither do the waters rush over such regular and massive platforms as at Glen's Falls: a long ledge of rock crosses the fall about midway, which breaks the main body of the torrent, and scatters it into a variety of picturesque forms and directions
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