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George Washington on horseback holding Field Glass

(American, 19th century)
Medium/TechniquePen, brown, blue, red, and black inks on paper
DimensionsSheet: 50.5 x 40.6 cm (19 7/8 x 16 in.) (oval)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.1124
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsUnder wreath in brown ink: Executed with the Pen/ BY/ John J. Stone
ProvenanceBy 1950, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams, Litchfield, CT (dealers); sold by Mr. and Mrs. Williams to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1960, gift of Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)
Lady Charioteer
Unidentified artist
Horse in Full Gallop
A. F. Davenport
General Washington on Horseback
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Eagle with Scroll and Quill Pen
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
Farm by a River in a Wooded Landscape
Esaias van de Velde
early to mid–1620s
Willam McConnell
Aesop
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
about 1778
Camp Ellsworth (Near Darnestown, MD)
Henry J. Shaw
September 25, 1861
Cupid, seated
Niccolo Martinelli, called Il Trometta
late 16th century