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AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
A Landscape Painting of Harper's Ferry
charcoal and pencil on paper, mounted on mat
21¾ x 27½ in.

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The landscape is virtually identical to a 1862 photograph taken by Matthew Brady of the Musket Factory ruins at Harper's Ferry (Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Catalog No. hf-0030). Both the photograph and the landscape offered here show the Potomac River with a Union Army pontoon bridge under construction.

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