Nicolino Calyo
A View of the Port of Baltimore
1835
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Nicolino Calyo
A View of the Port of Baltimore
1835
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor heightened with pastel on paper, Sheet: 941 x 1283 mm. (37 1/16 x 50 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased by the Women's Committee from funds derived from the 60th Anniversary Ball
Object Number
1974.43
Nicolino Caylo‘s view of Baltimore, one of four images based on his brief sojourn here in 1835-1836, looks northwest towards the harbor from Locust Point. Federal Hill is on the left and the red brick buildings of the waterfront are on the right. The body of water is the Northwest branch of the Patapsco River which turns westward at the base of Federal Hill toward the Inner Harbor. Bay schooners are anchored along the waterfront lined with warehouses and docks. A steamboat called the Washington has entered the harbor, en route from Philadelphia. Its signal flag could be seen with the aid of a telescope from the Marine Observatory on Federal Hill. When the flag was sighted, a similar flag was raised on the flagstaff on Federal Hill to inform the ship’s owner that his boat was approaching.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
BMA rotation, American Wing, November 12, 2014 - November 9, 2015
BMA rotation, American Wing, November 12, 2014 - November 9, 2015
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, p. 29.
