Drawing, General McClellan's Sixth Cavalry Regiment Embarking at Alexandria for Old Point Comfort, April 2, Winslow Homer, 2 April 1862

Horizontal view filled with figures of lancers on horseback in left foreground, left and extreme right middlegrounds, with a bugler and two officers at right, as a large house and animals stand in central background and as a river, containing a steamer and a sailing ship, gives way to the far shore in right background. Date: 2 April 1862. Dimensions: 21.9 x 40.3 cm (8 5/8 x 15 7/8 in.). Medium: brush and gray wash, graphite, paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, General McClellan's Sixth Cavalry Regiment Embarking at Alexandria for Old Point Comfort, April 2, 1862 (CH 18173859-2)