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Botany Bay from the Beach

(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
On View
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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
Edward Meyer Kern
1854
Edward Meyer Kern
December 1853
Edward Meyer Kern
January 1854
Edward Meyer Kern
December 1854
Edward Meyer Kern
December 1853
Edward Meyer Kern
July 1853
Edward Meyer Kern
1854
Edward Meyer Kern
1855
Edward Meyer Kern
July 15, 1853
Entrance to Lloyd Harbor
Edward Meyer Kern
October 29 1854