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Album of Western Sketches: a) Timber raft on the St Lawrence b) Fort Ticonderoga

George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836

Medium/Technique Graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions a) sheet: 7.6 x 13.2 cm (3 x 5 3/16 in.)
b) sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 11/16 in.
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.19
ClassificationsDrawingsAlbums

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
DescriptionTwo small sketches. a) raft with various sails b) several ruined buildings with tree in center
Inscriptionsa) LL in graphite pencil: title and G (s?) T, Aug 30, 1836
b) LL in graphite pencil: title, 10 Sept. 1836; monogram G.T.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956