'A Midnight Race on the Mississippi' by Frances Flora Palmer, 1860, Frances Flora Bond Palmer

A midnight race on the mississippi. The moonlit scene depicts a race between the natchez and the eclipse on the lower mississippi, in 1854; another version shows the memphis and the james howard. Palmer worked from a drawing made by h. D. Manning. Date: 1860. Dimensions: height: 71.1 cm (27.9 in); width: 46 cm (18.1 in). Medium: hand-colored lithograph. Collection: National Gallery of Art.