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(Recto): Haverstraw Bay; (Verso): Rail bridge
Robert Havell, Jr. (American (born in England), 1793–1878)
1839–78
Medium/Technique
Graphite and wash, heightened with white watercolor on gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 14.4 x 25.8 cm (5 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number59.103.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings – Sketchbooks
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 335
DescriptionOne of thirty-nine unbound leaves from Sketchbook of the Hudson River and New England. Recto: Landscape with the river and bay. Hills in distance. Verso: covered bridge and trees.
InscriptionsInscribed on recto in graphite upper right: Haverstraw Bay / for (something illegible) sketch; on verso in graphite: Croton
ProvenanceBy 1959, Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1959, gift of Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 12, 1959)