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The Trying Hour

(American (born in Ireland), 1796–1863)
Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil, pen and brown wash on buff paper, touched with white on buff paper
DimensionsSheet: 26.7 x 38.1 cm (10 1/2 x 15 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number57.282
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLL in ink: Chas C. Ingham; on chair: Ingham; on platform: The trying hour/ Cole
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 11, 1957
The Knight's Choice
Charles Cromwell Ingham
1816–63
Alfred R. Waud
Probably June 1862
Mrs. William Washington Russell (Lucy Channing)
Charles Cromwell Ingham
about 1825
Jasper Francis Cropsey
1852
James Wells Champney
1863–1903
The Trying Hour
Thomas Cole
1844–46
The Trying Hour
Asher Brown Durand
The Trying Hour
Henry Peters Gray
1844–46
The Trying Hour
James Hamilton Shegogue
1844–46
Perseverance
Asher Brown Durand
1844–46
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
early 17th century