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The Trying Hour

(American, 19th century)
1844–46
Medium/TechniqueBrown and white wash over graphite pencil on buff paper
DimensionsSheet: 39.2 x 26.2 cm (15 7/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number57.281
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsVerso in graphite: title / by Gray / for Cole
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 11, 1957
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