View Looking Across the Shenandoah Towards Harper's Ferry

William James Bennett (American (born in England), 1787–1844)

1835

Place Depicted: Harper's Ferry, New York, United States

Medium/Technique Watercolor on cream wove paper

Dimensions Sheet: 47.0 x 71.9 cm (18 1/2 x 28 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number51.1336

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsWatercolors

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik (1962) cat. 66, fig. 32

DescriptionHaywagon on scow crossing river. Cows at water's edge left. Trees right. Farmhouses on opposite shore. Mounatin in distance.

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1951