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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
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
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