2-752-647 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Old Fort Dumpling', 1872. View of the fort, officially called Fort Louis and, later, Fort Brown, overlooking the entrance to Narragansett Bay, Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA. Construction began in 1798. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]