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Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common

(American (born in England), 1803–1875)
1851
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions99.69 x 147.64 cm (39 1/4 x 58 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815-1865
Accession number48.475
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: W Sharp pinxt/Boston 1851.
ProvenanceThe artist; Henry A. Morse, Boston; to his daughter, Mrs. Henry Ware Putnam, Newport, R.I.; Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I., 1945; to MFA, 1948, gift of Martha C. (Mrs. Maxim) Karolik.
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