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Elevation with Tower and Mansard Roof

(American, 1823–1900)
1873
Medium/TechniquePen, graphite, and yellow, purple, green, red and white washes on yellow-gray paper
DimensionsSheet: 16.4 x 16.5 cm (6 7/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number52.1581
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsInscribed lower center in pen and ink: Elevation a; lower right: J. F. Cropsey 1873.
ProvenanceBy 1949, Mrs. Constance Mead, Flossmoor, Illinois; 1951, sold by Mrs. Mead to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1952, gift of Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession date: November 13, 1952)