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Passage of Potomac through the Blue Ridge looking up to the northwest from the road below Paine’s Hill

Description

Watercolor on paper drawing of "Passage of Potomac through the Blue Ridge looking up to the northwest from the road below Paine's Hill", from the Latrobe Sketchbooks, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. This drawing features a partially sketched, but unfinished foreground. There is a distant house on the hill at right. Ahead is the Potomac River, near Harper's Ferry, which is around where the Potomac meets the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Date

circa 1800-1820

Materials

Watercolor on paper

Object ID

1960.108.1.11.13

Accession Number

1960.108

Resource ID

4764

Notes

Sketchbook 11

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

This digital image is made available here for private study, scholarship, and research. Commercial and other uses are prohibited without the permission of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. For more information, visit the MCHC’s Reproductions and Permissions web page.