Reprinted from the Paterson Guardian, Feb. 11, 1868
and Published in the Passaic County Historical Society Publication, 1969, Vol. 2
Jasper Francis Cropsey(1823-1900)
The other day Mr. Jasper Francis Cropsey, the well-known artist of West Milford, sold a number of his pictures at the Leeds Gallery, New York. The sale was well attended and produced good prices, not so much, perhaps, as the pictures would have produced in good times, but still fair prices. About sixty-four pictures were sold among which were:
Wawayanda Water $220
Sunset, Lake George $145
Old Mill, New Jersey $140
An Old House in Sussex Co., N.J. $140
Moonrise, Greenwood Lake $135
Wyoming Valley $175
The Fourn Mountain $150
Foggy Morning, Gulworth $120
The Thousand Islands $300
The Mellow Autumn Time $675
Sandy Hook from Staten Island $575
Evening $625
Mount Washington from Lake Sebago $375
Stoke-Pogis, the scene of Grays elegy $470
Pompton Plains $250
Niagra Falls in Winter $110
Wood Scene $170
An Italian Garden $270
The Thousand Isles $370