This horizontal landscape painting shows a panoramic view of a river valley and an encampment from an elevated vantage point. The horizon runs about halfway up the composition beneath a wide expanse of pale blue sky dotted with a few puffy white clouds. A rocky bluff runs along the bottom edge of the canvas, closest to us. Three people in uniforms of dark blue jackets and lighter blue pants sit or stand among the sparce trees and shrubs there. One faces away from us, one sits on a boulder and smokes a pipe, and one gestures across the river. On a flat surface a bit farther down and to the…
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Maryland Heights: Siege of Harpers Ferry

painter William MacLeod (American, 1811 - 1892)

1863

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 111.76 cm (30 × 44 in.) ; framed: 94.62 × 129.86 × 11.11 cm (37 1/4 × 51 1/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Genevieve Plummer, 1954)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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