Infernal machines discovered in the Potomac [near Aquia] Creek by the flotilla ...

Detail of explosive device in foreground, scene of discovery in background.
Title inscribed above image.
Inscribed above image: Infernal machines discovered in the Potomac [near Aquia] Creek by the flotilla for whose destruction they were intended. Sketched by A. Waud from a photograph by James F. Gibson.
Inscribed right with arrow leading to a frigate: Pawnee. Inscribed vertically left margin: gunboat Freeborn / Capt Ward.
Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, July 22, 1861, p. 177 (Cover).
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0159).
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P.
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.