A First Lesson in the Art of War.--Recruits for the Two Additional Artillery Regiments at Fort Slocum, Davids Island, Long Island Sound
Alternate Title: Recruits at David's Island
Date: 1898
Medium: watercolor on paper
Catalogue Number: 02319
Dimensions: 28 x 22" (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (March 26, 1898), cover, p. 289, halftone.
Inscription: lc: How we went to war; lr: Frederic Remington/Davids Island N. Y./To my friend Nat Salisbury
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/Davids Island N. Y.
Provenance: The artist; Nate Salisbury; descended through the family; (Christie's, New York, New York, March 14, 1986)
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.