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Album of Western Sketches, America
George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836–49
Medium/Technique
Chiefly brown and white wash on gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 37.1 x 27.8 cm (14 5/8 x 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
DescriptionAlbum of 55 pages of drawings, bound by Riviere and Son, London. Full green morocco, gilt
Signed
All signed except nos. 12, 26, 27, 31, 33 (a,b), 38, 39, 41, 43, 46, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55.
InscriptionsAll drawings titled by artist except nos. 52-54. Drawings vignetted: nos. 1, 4, 5, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36, 44, 49.
Inscribed to their son, Stanley G. Tattersall, by his mother, March 4, 1861.
Inscribed to their son, Stanley G. Tattersall, by his mother, March 4, 1861.
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik, Newport, RI, to the MFA . (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)