Album of Western Sketches: "Outlying Negroes"- a Scene in the Table-land of the Havana

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

1840

Medium/Technique Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite pencil, on gray paper

Dimensions Sheet: 23.5 x 35.7 cm (9 1/4 x 14 1/16 in.) Drawing vignetted

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number56.400.42

ClassificationsDrawings – Albums

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)

DescriptionFigures on rocks in foreground surrounded by bushes and trees.

InscriptionsLR margin in pen and black ink: title
LR in pen and red ink: Geo:Tattersall 1840

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956