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Allegory of Autumn

Medium/TechniqueWatercolor and iron gall ink on paper pricked in imitation of needlework
DimensionsSheet: 18.9 x 22.9 cm (7 7/16 x 9 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.854
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsIn center of pedestal in ink: Herbst
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 8, 1960)
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