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View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point

Seth Eastman · 1837

Seth Eastman: American, 1808 - 1875

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View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point

1837

watercolor on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 12.07 × 23.5 cm (4 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.578
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By the artist
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Seth Eastman. View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point. Seth Eastman; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seth_Eastman,_View_of_the_North_River_from_the_North_West_Corner_of_Fort_Clinton%E2%80%94West_Point,_1837,_NGA_196116.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point — Seth Eastman. 1837.

Medium: watercolor on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 12.07 × 23.5 cm (4 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.578. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund, 1948).

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Seth Eastman. View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point. Seth Eastman; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seth_Eastman,_View_of_the_North_River_from_the_North_West_Corner_of_Fort_Clinton%E2%80%94West_Point,_1837,_NGA_196116.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.