Painted sketch of a landscape in Ellicott City, Maryland, showing a multi-story brick mill building to the right of the composition. A smaller wooden building surrounded by large trees is seen in the middle ground. A horse with a rider drinks water from the river in the foreground.

Ellicott’s First Mills

Description

Painted sketch of a landscape in Ellicott City, Maryland, showing a multi-story brick mill building to the right of the composition. A smaller wooden building surrounded by large trees is seen in the middle ground. A horse with a rider drinks water from the river in the foreground.

Creator

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820

Date

1798-1810

Materials

Watercolor on paper

Dimensions

5 H x 6 W inches

Object ID

1945.105.6

Resource ID

14769

Credit Line

Gift of Latrobe Cogswell Collection

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

This digital image is made available here for private study, scholarship, and research. Commercial and other uses are prohibited without the permission of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. For more information, visit the MCHC’s Reproductions and Permissions web page.