An Officer of the Corps of Bowmen

1797–1805

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions: 7-11/16 x 5-3/8 in. (19.5 x 13.6 cm)
Collection no.: 62.20
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

William Alexander. An Officer of the Corps of Bowmen. William Alexander; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

An Officer of the Corps of Bowmen — William Alexander. 1797–1805.

Medium: Watercolor over graphite. Dimensions: 7-11/16 x 5-3/8 in. (19.5 x 13.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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