Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 66.142
Date:
Ca. 1865
Notes:
Exh.catalog "Centennial of American Watercolor Society," Metropolitan Museum, 1966.
Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 217, 312.
Summary:
A flat coastal landscape with large groups of loosely drawn figures near the water's edge. Three of the figures are more clearly drawn, one figure flanked by two dressed in black. On the horizon there is a large ship, and two smaller ships are silhouetted against the bright orange and yellow sunrise.
