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Design for Broadway Railroad and Elevated Promenade, New York

(American, 19th century)
Medium/TechniqueInk and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 15.7 x 61.6 cm (6 3/16 x 24 1/4 in.) (irregular)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number51.2545
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
Inscriptionsin ink below: Wickersham's plan for Broadway railroad and elevated promenade, longitudinal view
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 8, 1951
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