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Self Portrait

(American (born in England), 1780–1840)
1815–34
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor and graphite on board
DimensionsSheet: 17.6 x 13.4 cm (6 15/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number61.292
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsInscribed below in pen and ink: Jarvis the Painter / (sketched by himself.)
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1961
De Witt Clinton
John Wesley Jarvis
about 1810
Jarvis Griggs Kellogg
Jarvis Griggs Kellogg
Jarvis Griggs Kellogg
Jarvis Griggs Kellogg
Jarvis Griggs Kellogg
Jarvis Griggs Kellogg
Interior of Lucca Cathedral
John Ruskin
about 1879
Family Outing
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840