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Study for "Dance on a Stone Boat": Small Composition
James Goodwyn Clonney (American (born in England), 1812–67)
about 1845
Medium/Technique
Graphite on brown paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.6 x 17.8 cm (8 1/2 x 7 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number55.712
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 162
DescriptionRect: Man dancing on stone-boat (sledge for draggin stone) facing left; fiddler standing left with boy between him and oxen; man seated under tree and another leaning over his shoulder right; man beating time extreme right. Study for the painting, "Dance on a Stone Boat." Verso: graphite sketch of a head.
InscriptionsAnnotated lower right in graphite: 35-
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA October 20, 1955