DETAILS
- Artist
- Harry Fenn
- Date
- 1870
- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and gum arabic on light tan wove paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 7 5/16 x 10 3/4 in. (18.6 x 27.3 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Purchase, Frederick H. Rohlfs Gift, 1973
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THE ARTIST
Harry Fenn
Harry Fenn was an English-born American illustrator, celebrated for his detailed landscape engravings in monumental publications like *Picturesque America*.
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