Log House on the Susquehanna River

Description

Pencil on paper drawing of "Log House on the Susquehanna River", ca. 1801-1802, from the Latrobe Sketchbooks, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. In 1801, Latrobe was appointed by the Pennsylvania governor to work with the Susquehanna Canal Company of Maryland to make improvements to the Lower Susquehanna River. He surveyed the river with a small crew from October-November of that year and presented his work to the governor in March 1802. Latrobe's team began the forty-mile survey project to Havre de Grace, Maryland from Columbia, Pennsylvania. This scene features a simple log house or cabin at the base of a sloping wooded hill along the river bank.