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New Orleans from the Battleground

(American, 1783–1859)
1846
Medium/TechniqueBrown wash on paper
DimensionsSheet: 20.0 x 31.3 cm (7 7/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number59.163
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsIn ink on verso: New Orleans from Battle Ground, about 7 miles distant-/ 3 Nov: 1846/ The tree on the right hand shows the long gray moss "Tillandsia usneoides" streaming/ from the branches-
Provenance1959, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 12, 1959)
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