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Washing Gold, Calaveras River, California
Probably by: Unidentified artist, French, 19th century
1853
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 44.3 × 59.7 cm (17 7/16 × 23 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3844
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 0761, fig. 159 (Visiting foreign artists)
DescriptionVisiting foreign artists- anonymous. River left, miners and sluice-boxes center; rocky cliff right, tent with French flag on bank left.
InscriptionsDated bottom right in watercolor: "1853" In left margin: directions to matmaker in French ( graphite pencil)
Provenance1950, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 1950)