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View from Crow's Nest, West Point, 1851

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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

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

Collections

Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Watercolors