One of the Mammoth Sea Coast Mortars in the Crows Nest Battery

Title

One of the Mammoth Sea Coast Mortars in the Crows Nest Battery

Abstract

Artist

Date

No date

Transcription

Recto: No text.
Verso: "One of the mammoth Sea Coast Mortars in the 'Crows Nest' Battery. // Commanding the Canal being Cut at Dutch Gap By Major Ludlow of Butler's Staff // [signed] Edw. F. Mullen // The Mortar is an Iron [illegible] painted Black."

Condition

Vertical and horizontal folds; loss of paper at three corners; dog ear at upper left; stain at lower left margin.

Medium

Graphite on heavy gauge wove paper

Dimensions

9 x 9.5 in.

Genre

Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870

Coordinates

37.359871, -77.4152606

Source

Original drawing location: CW-EM-VA-NDa (Box 7.)

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4752

Ref. Number

(Becker)CW-EM-VA-NDa

Tags

Citation

Mullen, E. F., “One of the Mammoth Sea Coast Mortars in the Crows Nest Battery,” The Becker Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://beckercollection.bc.edu/items/show/2820.