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The Bone Player

Lithographer: Adolphe Lafosse (French, 1810–1879)
After: William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
1857

Medium/Technique Chromoithograph with additional hand coloring
Dimensions Sheet: 83.5 x 63 cm (32 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800-1875
Accession Number2007.47
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionThe painting on which this lithograph is based is in the collection of the MFA (accession number 48.461)
InscriptionsIn stone, in image: Lafosse
In stone, at lower left: Painted by Wm. S. Mount
In stone, at lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857, by W. Schaus, in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York
In stone, at lower right: Lith. by Lafosse.
In stone, at lower center: The Bone Player. / New-York, pub-d. by W. Schaus, 29 Broadway
In stone, at lower right: Imp. F-ois. Delarue, Paris
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport, R. I. by 1944; his bequest to MFA 1964; accessioned 2007.