Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

View across the Potomac toward the arsenal, ships at anchor.
Signed lower right: AR Waud.
Title inscribed below image.
Inscribed below title: the arsenal stands on a point running out into the river at the junction of the eastern branch.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.444)
Published in: New York Illustrated News, 9 December, 1861, p. 93.
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.