Grand Panorama View from the Harbor Hill, Roslyn, L.I. Looking South

Grand Panorama View from the Harbor Hill, Roslyn, L.I. Looking South

Flushing Bay; Little Neck Bay; Manhasset; Roslyn; Hempstead Harbor; Locust Valley; Oyster Bay Harbor

Watercolor and gouache on white paper depicting a wide angle panoramic view from the top of Harbor Hill looking South. Foreground consists of densely wooded forest with curving road looping through, several figures clustered at various points along the road partially visible through the trees, inset watercolor sketch of "The Tower at Harbor Hill" in the left corner. Midground depicts rolling hills of patchwork fields with occasional trees or structures throughout, railroad station and tracks on center right with train traveling away from the viewer. Background filled with more rolling hills that gradually flatten to the horizon line, two buildings with steeples silhouetted in center, sky is lightly pigmented with clouds outlined in grey wash, rainstorm or sunbeams passing across the landscape under the clouds highlighted by grey diagonal brushstrokes. Painting bordered with this white line, titled below "Grand Panorama View from the Harbor Hill, Roslyn, L.I. Looking South" with subheadings below reading from left to right "Hicksville", "Westbury", "Hempstead", "Garden City", "Mineola", "Roslyn R.R. Depot", "Jamaica Bay", "Coney Island".

Lange, Edward (1846-1912) [Artist]

Edward Lange (1846-1912). Grand Panorama View from the Harbor Hill, Roslyn, L.I. Looking South, ca. 1887. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 24.5 x 47.5 in. (unframed); 33 x 55.5 in. (framed). Preservation Long Island purchase, 1996.3.2

ca. 1887

24.5 x 47.5 in. (unframed); 33 x 55.5 in. (framed)

Painting

Signed lower left corner, "Edw. Lange. Art Elwood. Suff. Co. N.Y."

Watercolor and gouache on paper

New York; Nassau County; Town of North Hempstead; Roslyn

Preservation Long Island purchase, 1996.3.2