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Looking toward the range up Georgetown Creek [Colorado]

(American, active 1850–1890)
Medium/TechniqueGray wash on paper
DimensionsImage: 26.0 x 40.6 cm (10 1/4 x 16 in.)
Sheet: 31.9 x 44.0 cm (12 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number53.2454
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLR margin in graphite: W F Phipps; in ink: title; On Verso at bottem in ink: Hold at a distance for it is done roughly / One of my first attempts.-; at left; Douglass M't.; center: Union Pass over / this low "divide"; upper right: Colfax; lower right: Foot of Columbia or Griffith M't.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1953
Foothills near Boulder, Colorado
William F. Phipps
1858–1900
Plains from Bear Canyon
William F. Phipps
1858–1900
Traveling Jug and Two Beakers
Thomas Phipps
jug: 1806–07; beakers: 1807–08
Group shot:  56.1320, 56.1321
Thomas Phipps
about 1790
Group shot:  56.1320, 56.1321
Thomas Phipps
about 1790
Portrait of Henry S. Mount
William Sidney Mount
1824–68
Landscape with houses and trees
John William Casilear
19th century
Mountain stream
John William Casilear
1830–93
Boulder Canyon Colorado
John William Casilear
1800–99
Morris Dock, Harlem River
William Rickarby Miller
1879–81