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Album of Western Sketches: The American Falls- Niagara, from Goat Island

George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836
Place Depicted: Niagara Falls, United States

Medium/Technique Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite pencil, on gray paper
Dimensions Sheet: 22.9 x 17.9 cm (9 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.6
ClassificationsDrawingsAlbums

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
Description10 small sketches of figures.
InscriptionsDirectly under border in blank ink: G.T., 25. Aug., 1836; Below drawing: title
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956