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Memory Lesson

(American, 19th century)
Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil and watercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 37.0 x 48.6 cm (14 9/16 x 19 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 40.0 x 51.6 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number56.434
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
Inscriptionslower margin l and r in graphite: Sophia Hamilton
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)
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