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View of New London, Connecticut.

1840–60
Medium/TechniqueBlack and White chalk on gray-blue prepared paper (sandpaper)
DimensionsSheet: 52.9 x 70.8 cm (20 13/16 x 27 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number51.2506
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsOn verso stamped: Exposition universelle, de 1855 / Mention honorable / Papier-Carbon anti-ponce p. le Pastel. / Papier-Toile Verres et Emerises p. polir./ p.l. brevete, a bolbec, seine infre
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1948
Magic Lake
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
MacLean Asylum, Somerville, Massachusetts
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
about 1840
White House with Columns
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Garden of Paradise
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Variation on "Magic Lake"
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
1800–1900
The Genesee Canal
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Restricted
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Fisherman on the Harwinton
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Farm on a River, Vermont
Emily S. Moore
November 1855
The Fairmount waterworks, Philadelphia
Unknown American, 19th century