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Portrait of Charles Bartlett Roberts

(American, 1811–1865)
1835
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor over graphite on paper
DimensionsImage: 19.1 x 15.9 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 20.5 x 16.7 cm (8 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.868
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLower margin in decorative black script (ink): Charles Bartlett, Roberts. Born May 21st 1822. / Painted at the Age of 13 years.
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 8, 1960)