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Album of Western Sketches: Niagara, from the staircase, on the American Side

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: 19.4 x 17.1 cm (7 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.9
ClassificationsDrawingsAlbums

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
DescriptionFalls with figure and railing in foreground, left.
InscriptionsDirectly below picture in pen and black ink: G.T.; 24. Aug; 1836
In lower margin in pen and black ink: title
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956