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

NOT ON VIEW

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