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Walnut Street Wharf, Philadelphia, 1865

Medium/TechniquePen and violet ink with watercolor with paper
DimensionsSheet: 20.5 x 57.5 cm (8 1/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number55.772
On View
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLL in ink: July 28, 1865.; LR: DJ Kennedy; Lower margin center: This sketch made on Walnut Street Wharf west side of Schuykill River looking East on July 28th 1865. by D. J. Kennedy. Detailed color notes below. On verso in graphite: notes
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955
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