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View from Crow's Nest, West Point, 1851
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (American, 1816–1892)
1851
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil and Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.7 x 43.3 cm (10 1/2 x 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3865
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 547
DescriptionEagle with prey above boulder in foreground right; wooded slopes below river beyond; range of hills in distance.
InscriptionsLower left in brush: "View from /Crow's nest. West / Point. Northward / Sept 30th 1851 / Sketche Ap. 16th / 1236 M. C. Meigs"
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA December 14, 1950