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Eureka Mill, Nevada
Edward Fairman (American, 19th century)
Place Depicted: Nevada, United States
Medium/Technique
Pen and black ink, colored crayon, and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.4 x 37.9 cm (10 x 14 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 33.2 x 44.5 cm (13 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 33.2 x 44.5 cm (13 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number57.255
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1160, fig. 262 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- landscapes. River across foreground with sluiceways and mills. Teams drawing wagons of ore. Succession of barren peaks leading to mountains.
InscriptionsLR in pen and ink: E. Fairman C.E.; Lower margin: Eureka Mill./ Brown & Hurd/ Gold and Silver Quartz Mill on Carson River, Nevada Territory./ Edwd Fairman, C.E (apparently Fairman was a civil engineer.)
Provenance1957, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 11, 1957)