Inscription
Lower left in brush: "View from /Crow's nest. West / Point. Northward / Sept 30th 1851 / Sketche Ap. 16th / 1236 M. C. Meigs"
Provenance
Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA December 14, 1950
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
1851
- Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, American, 1816–1892
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 547
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.7 x 43.3 cm (10 1/2 x 17 1/16 in.)
Accession Number
50.3865
Medium or Technique
Graphite pencil and Watercolor on paper