Family Group

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

19th century

Medium/TechniqueModified watercolor and graphite

DimensionsSheet: 25.88 x 35.2 cm (10 3/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession number56.438

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ClassificationsDrawings

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InscriptionsOn scroll in pen and ink: This is a land / immortal This/ beautiful of lands/ that glorious land / is heaven and / mortals who pass/ through it are mortals never/ more./ ab. initio/ P. Punt,, (?or JS Fenton)

Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)

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