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View of the Mountain Region ( the seat of war in Western Virginia) from the Summit of Limestone Mountain

(American, 1840–1896)
1861
Place DepictedWest Virginia, United States
Medium/TechniqueGraphite, pen and ink, and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 24.3 x 36.5 cm (9 9/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number55.877
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsUpper center in graphite pencil: title; left: Alfd. Thompson.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955
Shantytown, New York City
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
1875
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
1861–65
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
about 1861
Pickets firing near Fairfax
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
about 1861
Capture of a Rebel Picket at Stroud's Farm
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
1861
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
about 1862
Fort Lyon, South of Alexandria
Alfred Wordworth Thompson
about 1862