A Gunner

Requires Photography

1800–1900

Medium/Technique Black chalk on yellow-buff paper

Dimensions Sheet: 40.3 x 29.8 cm (15 7/8 x 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number61.253

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik 0033

DescriptionAcademic anonymous. Civil War soldier, full-length to right, shading his eyes with left hand and holding a ramrod in his right.

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1961
Coll.: Corot-Mettscher (stamped in green on verso)