DETAILS
- Artist
- William Trost Richards
- Date
- 1855
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (22.2 x 29.2 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1996
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