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Looking Upstream from Horsetail Island, 1846

(American, 1783–1859)
1846
Medium/TechniqueBrown wash on paper
DimensionsSheet: 21.6 x 31.8 cm (8 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.817
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsVerso in ink: Sketch on the Mississippi River, looking up the stream from Horsetail Island, about 15 miles below St. Louis/ 15 Oct 1846
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 8, 1960
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