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Album of Western Sketches: Sketches in Lower Canada
George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836
Medium/Technique
Pen and black ink, over graphite pencil, heightened with white gouache, on cream paper
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.21
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
DescriptionEight small drawings: canoe, rifle, cart, ermine, crave, salmon spear, trout spear, view of Quebec.
InscriptionsBelow each drawing in pen and black ink: title of individual sketch
In margin under lowest drawing in pen and black ink: G.T., Sketches in Lower Canada, 1836
In margin under lowest drawing in pen and black ink: G.T., Sketches in Lower Canada, 1836
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956