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Mount Vernon

Attributed to: Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Possibly by: C. A. Tatterson (American, 19th century)
1860

Medium/Technique Black chalk and graphite, with scratching on prepared paper
Dimensions Image: 43.7 x 51.9 cm (17 3/16 x 20 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 44.6 x 53.2 cm (17 9/16 x 20 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3984
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

DescriptionFolk art- sandpapers and pastels. Mansion on hill distance left with archade; gate foreground; water with sailboats right.
InscriptionsScratched lr: "A. Tatt." Inscribed in pencil: "C.A.T. 1860"
Provenance1950, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 1950)