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View of New York Bay from Gowanus Height, Brooklyn

(English, 1809–1854)
1856
Place DepictedNew York, United States
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 30.8 x 49.7 cm (12 1/8 x 19 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 31.9 x 50.2 cm (12 9/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.814
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsBelow in graphite pencil: title and "in 1856" Watercolor sketch on verso.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 8, 1960
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