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Album of Western Sketches: The Hunted Buffalo
George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836–49
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite pencil, on buff paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.39
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
DescriptionTwo Indians on horseback hunting buffalo in center.
InscriptionsLR margin in pen and black ink: title
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956