DETAILS
- Artist
- William James Bennett
- Date
- 1824
- Medium
- Watercolor on off-white wove paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
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