DETAILS
- Artist
- Samuel F. B. Morse
- Date
- 1805
- Medium
- Watercolor on ivory
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 2 5/8 x 1 5/16 in. (6.8 x 4.9 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006
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