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Reconnaissance in Force by General Gorman before Yorktown

(American, 1836–1910)
1862
Object PlaceUnited States
Medium/TechniqueGraphite with brush and gray wash on cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 21 x 33.7 cm (8 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number50.3915
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsSigned in graphite in l.l.: "WH"; l.c. and l.r.: "Reconnaissance in force by Gen'Gorman before Yorktown,/ Rebel battery only three hundred yards distant behind the woods." Verso: in graphite, "House was headquarters of French Commander at old siege of Yorktown." [In Homer's hand?]