Original 1840 steel engraving with the view of the Battle Monument in Baltimore, on Calvert Street, drawn by William Henry Bartlett and engraved by Henry Griffiths. The monument commemorates those who fell in the defense of the city against the British fleet in 1814.
Original 1840 steel engraving with the view of the Battle Monument in Baltimore, on Calvert Street, drawn by William Henry Bartlett and engraved by Henry Griffiths. The monument commemorates those who fell in the defense of the city against the British fleet in 1814.
Medium: Steel engraving, black and white.
Artist / after: William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854).
Engraver: Henry Griffiths (d. 1849).
Date: 1840.
Source: American Scenery, by Nathaniel Parker Willis, illustrated by W. H. Bartlett (London, George Virtue, 1840).
Dimensions: Plate mark 4.8 x 7.2 in (12.3 x 18.4 cm); sheet 8.1 x 10.7 in (20.7 x 27.2 cm).
Condition: Good, with wide, clean margins.