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Portrait of Charles Bartlett Roberts
Joseph H. Davis (American, 1811–1865)
1835
Medium/Technique
Watercolor over graphite on paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.1 x 15.9 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 20.5 x 16.7 cm (8 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 20.5 x 16.7 cm (8 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number60.868
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1109 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- portraits. Boy standing in landscape, profile to right, holding powder horn in right hand and barrel of gun in left. Retriever with bird at right. Hunting cap and dead bird on ground left.
InscriptionsLower margin in decorative black script (ink): Charles Bartlett, Roberts. Born May 21st 1822. / Painted at the Age of 13 years.
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 8, 1960)