View from the Bluffs, Columbus, Kentucky
Title
View from the Bluffs, Columbus, Kentucky
Abstract
Wide panorama.
Artist
Date
March 1861
Transcription
Recto: "Do not forget to show the new timber along the low shore with the old timber behind. The new growth works like a canebrake and is very characteristic to the shores of the Mississippi. // View from the northern redoubts, on the Bluff Columbus, Ky. // Looking North towards Cairo (see Sketch No. 1, redoubt above the Waterbatteries). // Stockade guarding pass over ditch. // Belmont Point. // Island No. 3. // End of waterbatteries."
Verso: No text.
Subject
Condition
Vertical and horizontal folds; loss of paper at left corners; stain at remaining three.
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
6 x 13.5 in.
Genre
Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870
Panoramic views--American--1860-1870
Coordinates
36.7597791, -89.1033997999999
Source
Original drawing location: CW-HL-KY-3/62a (Box 5.)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4502
Ref. Number
(Becker)CW-HL-KY-3/62a