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House Blessing: "Die Menschen bauen sich oft Hauser und Palaste"
House Blessing: "Die Menschen bauen sich oft Hauser und Palaste"

House Blessing: "Die Menschen bauen sich oft Hauser und Palaste"

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor, pen and red and brown ink on paper
DimensionsSheet: 31.8 x 38.3cm (12 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.)
Framed: 45.1 x 54 cm (17 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number50.3840
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsUnder arches in pen, red ink and watercolor: verses- "Die Menschen bauen sich oft Hauser und Pallaste"ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA December 14, 1950 Coll.: Lorimer (sale cat., part I, no. 376)
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