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The Trying Hour

(American, 19th century)
Medium/TechniqueBrown wash over graphite pencil, touched with white on light blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 26.2 x 39.1 cm (10 5/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number57.283
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsUR in graphite: Trying Hour / Morton / for Cole On verso: Trying hour...(same thing)
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 11, 1957
Hour of Trial
Francis William Edmonds
Perseverance
Francis William Edmonds
1844–46
The Trying Hour
Charles Cromwell Ingham
Alfred R. Waud
Probably June 1862
Landscape with Figures and Stag Hunt
Unidentified artist, French, 16th century
Myles Birket Foster
Cupid, seated
Niccolo Martinelli, called Il Trometta
late 16th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 17th century
About 1600–20
Front Elevation of Charles H. Collins House, Meriden, Connecticut
Henry Austin
About 1868 (house built in 1868, demolished in 1955)