View down the Potomack, from the Junction of the Cohongoronta and the Shenandoah in Virginia
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
William Strickland (British, 1787–1854); Joseph Halfpenny (English, 1748–1811). View down the Potomack, from the Junction of the Cohongoronta and the Shenandoah in Virginia, 1795–1796. Watercolor over graphite on cream, moderately thick, slightly to moderately textured laid paper mounted to paperboard, Overall: 20 11/16 x 27 1/2 in. (52.5 x 69.9 cm) Image paper: 18 1/8 x 25 in. (46 x 63.5 cm) Frame: 30 1/2 x 37 1/8 x 2 in. (77.5 x 94.3 x 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 1991.43. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Artists
Title
View down the Potomack, from the Junction of the Cohongoronta and the Shenandoah in Virginia
Date
1795–1796
Medium
Watercolor over graphite on cream, moderately thick, slightly to moderately textured laid paper mounted to paperboard
Classification
Dimensions
Overall: 20 11/16 x 27 1/2 in. (52.5 x 69.9 cm) Image paper: 18 1/8 x 25 in. (46 x 63.5 cm) Frame: 30 1/2 x 37 1/8 x 2 in. (77.5 x 94.3 x 5.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "Sketched June 1795 by William Strickland Esqur"; and signed lower right: "finished by Joseph Halfpenny 1796"
Inscriptions
Inscribed in black ink along bottom: "View down the Potomack, from the junction of the Cohongoronta and the Shenandoah in Virginia"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
1991.43
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