View up Licking Valley from the Fortifications on Tunnel Hill

View up Licking Valley from the Fortifications on Tunnel Hill

Large panorama; "Tree clearing at Tunnell Hill, near Covington" (Frank Leslie's Illustrated, October 4, 1862.

October 1862?

Recto: "From the Fortifications on Tunnel Hill, up the Licking Valley. // All the open spaces are fields, put in good effect of distance. The timber is large and finely grouped, you can make a fine landscape by throwing a soft shadow over the distance at th gap and the middle hills on the left. Foreground on a high hill 200 feet above valley. // Citizens digging rifle pits & felling small trees for abatis. Tuesday. // Fort. Men working. // Independence Pike // C&L R.R. // Foreground small stumps and dry grass."

Verso: No text.

Dog ear at upper left corner; ripping along fold on right margin.

graphite on wove paper

9 x 14 in.

Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870

Panoramic views--American--1860-1870

38.1592452, -83.8368648

Original drawing location: CW-HL-KY-10?/62 (Box 5.)

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4516

(Becker)CW-HL-KY-10?/62