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Barnum's Museum from St. Paul's Chapel; looking across Broadway, New York

(American, 1812–1878)
Place DepictedNew York, New York, United States
Medium/TechniqueTransparent and opaque watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 54.6 x 77.2 cm (21 1/2 x 30 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number53.2478
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLR in wash: Thomas Wakeman; LL: title
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1953
New York: Park Row
Thomas Wakeman
1840
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