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Album of Western Sketches: "Taking a scrape coolly,"
George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1839
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite pencil, on gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12.2 x 16.4 cm (4 13/16 x 6 7/16 in.) Corners cut
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.37
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
DescriptionMan playing fiddle in sinking horse and buggy.
InscriptionsLC in pen and black ink: title
LR in pen and black ink: G.T. 1839
LR in pen and black ink: G.T. 1839
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956