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(Recto): R.H.--- at Sing Sing; (Verso): partial (erased?) lanscape sketch
Robert Havell, Jr. (American (born in England), 1793–1878)
1839–78
Medium/Technique
Graphite and white heightening on gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 14.4 x 25.7 cm (5 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number59.103.5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings – Sketchbooks
DescriptionOne of thirty-nine unbound leaves from Sketchbook of the Hudson River and New England. Recto: White house in landscape.
InscriptionsInscribed on recto, upper right corner: RH (something illegible) at (something illegible); verso, lower right: This page was a gift from Harry Newman
ProvenanceBy 1959, Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1959, gift of Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 12, 1959)