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Hour of Trial

(American, 1806–1863)
Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil, brown wash on light blue paper, touched with white and scratched for highlighs
DimensionsSheet: 27.3 x 39.7 cm (10 3/4 x 15 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number57.280
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLR in ink: Hour of Trial / F.W. Edmonds UR in graphite: title / and Edmonds for Co. . Verso in graphite: ... for Cole
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 11, 1957
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