Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts [serial] 10,2 (1984)
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34 MESDA Virginia Landscapes by William Roberts Barbara C. Batson Three prints of Virginia scenery, Natural Bridge, the Potomac River, and Harper's Ferry, as well as the preparatory watercolors for the last, all recently acquired by MESDA, offer a rare oppor- tunity to understand the process by which landscape prints were produced as well as to examine artistic selection of topographical views during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The artist, William Roberts, remains largel...y obscure; the years of his birth and death, his training, even his nationality — all are unknown or uncertain. Manuscript notes on two prints provide a tantalizing bit of information, however. View on the Potomac in the MESDA collection is inscribed "Mr. Burton / 91 Gloster Place / Por . . . . " A similar inscription is on the handcolored aquatint, Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, Virginia, owned by the New York Public Library: "Original picture in oils at 91 Gloucester Place. Painted by Mr.
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