From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799

View on the New Turnpike Road, on the Margin of the Juniata, with a Distant View of the Warrior Mountain, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1820, American Paintings and Sculpture

Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1994 Size: 14 3/4 x 20 13/16 in. (37.5 x 52.8 cm) Medium: Watercolor, graphite, brown ink, and sgraffito on off-white wove paper

Side Chair by Benjamin Henry Latrobe via American Decorative Arts

Medium: Yellow poplar, oak, maple, white pine, gold leaf, and gesso

Purchase, Mrs. Paul Moore Gift, by exchange, 1994 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Moonlight scene at Hastings in England

From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799

From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799

From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799

“The sketches ... show the contrast of the benevolence of nature, and the ingenuity of man. Under the spreading oak on the left every hour of the day is shady & cool, to the right may be easily recognized the old arrangment of a Virginian plantation. It appears as if the War waged by Agriculture against our forests, had been a War of extermination ...”

From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799

From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799