2-752-358 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Northampton Meadows', 1874. Countryside at Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. 'Northampton, in all respects one of the most beautiful villages in this or in any other land, situated on the west side of the Connecticut [River], on rising ground, about a mile from the river, between which and the town lie some of the fairest meadow-lands in the world, covering an area of between three thousand and four thousand acres'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]