Title: The Traveler's First View of New York—The Battery and Flagstaff
Object type: Watercolor
Date: 1811–ca. 1813
Culture: American
Artist:  Pavel Petrovich Svinin 
Artist bio: 1787/88–1839
Artist nationality: Russian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor and ink on white wove paper
Dimensions: 6 3/16 x 8 7/8 in. (15.7 x 22.5 cm)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1942
Department: The American Wing
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Landscapes, term: Flags, term: New York City