IMAGE
View from the Bluffs, Columbus, Kentucky Item Info
- Abstract:
- Wide panorama.
- Title:
- View from the Bluffs, Columbus, Kentucky
- Artist:
- Lovie, Henri
- Date:
- March 1861
- Transcription:
- Recto: "Do not forget to show the new timber along the low shore with the old timber behind. The new growth works like a canebrake and is very characteristic to the shores of the Mississippi. // View from the northern redoubts, on the Bluff Columbus, Ky. // Looking North towards Cairo (see Sketch No. 1, redoubt above the Waterbatteries). // Stockade guarding pass over ditch. // Belmont Point. // Island No. 3. // End of waterbatteries.";Verso: No text.
- Subjects:
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Condition:
- Vertical and horizontal folds; loss of paper at left corners; stain at remaining three.
- Place:
- Kentucky--Hickman--Columbus Mississippi River Missouri--Mississippi--Belmont Landing
- Medium:
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 6 x 13.5 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 36.7597791, -89.1033997999999
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-HL-KY-3/62a (Box 5.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4502
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-HL-KY-3/62a
- Collection:
- Ships
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "View from the Bluffs, Columbus, Kentucky", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2794.html