Collection Highlights
Plan of the City of New York
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.NS3.M36.1.3ab
Medium:
Black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Drawings
View up the Potomac River to Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Object Number:
1958.58
Date:
1795
Medium:
Graphite on half of folded sheet
Dimensions:
folded sheet: 13 x 8 in. ( 33 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
inscription: upper left, on image page: "View up the Potowmack[sic] to Harpers ferry / & the junction of the Cohongoronta & Shenandoah / June 5th 1795"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in graphite: "View up the Potowmack to Harpers ferry / & the Junction of the Cohongoronta & Shenandoah. -- / June 5th. 1795."; various annotations
Description:
Topographical view
Credit Line:
Gift of Reverend J.E. Strickland
Provenance:
Descent through the artist's family; the Reverend J.E. Strickland, Gouray Lodge, Jersey, Channel Islands
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
