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Botany Bay from the Beach
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Botany Bay from the Beach

Edward Meyer Kern (American, 1823–1863)
January 1854
Medium/TechniqueGraphite, pen and ink and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 13.7 x 38.4 cm (5 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number59.910
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ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsInscribed in pen and ink lower left: E M Kern / January 1854; lower right: Botany Bay from the Beach / Showing Entrance (something illegible) at Sir J. Bank's Hotel - A.S.W.ProvenanceGiven by the artist to Captain William Brenton Boggs, the Ringgold-Rodgers Expedition's purser; bought from Bogg's granddaughter by Maxim Karolik. Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1959