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Raising the Wind: Girl blowing Soap Bubbles

(American, 1807–1868)
Medium/TechniqueBrown wash over graphite pencil, touched with flesh color on light blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 27.3 x 40.0 cm (10 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number55.792
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLR in pen and ink: Wm S. Mount. Del. / 1844. Verso in graphite: title / For Thomas S. Cummings, Esq.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955
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