Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Military vessels in Bellingam Bay, Washington?]
Date:
[185-]
Materials:
painting on paper: watercolor
Dimensions:
24 x 47.9 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1293--B
Subject:
- Bays
- Military Facilities
- Northwest, Pacific
- Vessels
- Marines (Visual works)
- Paintings
- Travel sketches
- Watercolors
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Two war(?) vessels: American two-masted sidewheel steamship with one smokestack, and British three-masted steamship (larger), anchored in (Bellingham?) bay; military camp on shore to left; several canoes with people in foreground; Mount Baker(?) and other snow-covered mountains in distance. View probably related to Pig War with Indian population on San Juan Islands, Washington.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Signature (LL): Mc Murtrie. Handwritten (on verso) in ink: Property of Emily Francis McMurtrie; By Wm. B. McMurtrie; in pencil: Emily F. McMurtrie.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf4z09p2v h

[Military vessels in Bellingam Bay, Washington?]