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Raising the wind: Boy starting a fire

Raising the wind: Boy starting a fire

(American, 19th century)
1844–46
Medium/TechniqueGray, black, white and orange wash over graphite pencil on buff paper
DimensionsSheet: 26.0 x 38.3 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number55.790
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLR in pen: Henry Peters Gray; verso in graphite: For Mr. Cummings / title / by HP Gray
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955