Title:
[North Pacific Coast, Mount Baker from Bellingham Bay, Washington?]
Creator/Contributor:
McMurtrie, William Birch (1816-1872), American, artist (artist)
Date:
[185-]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1294--C
Format:
painting on paper: watercolor
23.3 x 42.4 cm.
Content/Description:
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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature (LL, on log): McMurtrie. Printed (on verso): N[orth] Pacific Coast, M[oun]t Baker from Bellingham
Bay?
Subjects:
Bays;
Military facilities;
Northwest, Pacific;
Vessels
Genre/Format:
Marines (Visual works);
Paintings;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors