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View of Boston from Chelsea

(American, 1822–1866)
1866
Place DepictedBoston, Massachuesetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 31.6 x 49.8 cm (12 7/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number58.915
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ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsOn back of original mount in graphite: A mere lazy trial sketch in partial imitation of the / style only of one whose great and renowned excellence / ought to have deterred me, together with my great admiration for him/ from it. It is lucky however that my mental and bodily / condition at this time rendered it impossible for to attain / enough truth of resemblance to subject a libel suit/ M. G. W. 1866 (The subject matter of the sketch is a mere recollection / of the splendid Harbor view from Chelsea- of which I / made another afterwards from an outline pencil sketch / that I happened to turn in looking over my things.)
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA September 18, 1958