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Raising the Wind: Girl blowing Soap Bubbles
William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
Medium/Technique
Brown wash over graphite pencil, touched with flesh color on light blue paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 27.3 x 40.0 cm (10 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number55.792
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CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 649
DescriptionLittle girl outdoors blowing soap-bubbles.
Marks
Watermark: portion of M with laurel wreath
InscriptionsLR in pen and ink: Wm S. Mount. Del. / 1844. Verso in graphite: title / For Thomas S. Cummings, Esq.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955