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Salem Harbor

(American, 1804–1865)
1853
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions66.36 x 106.68 cm (26 1/8 x 42 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Maxim Karolik
Accession number64.465
On View
On view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left center, on sail: FHL/1853
Provenance1853, the artist; Nathaniel Silsbee, Jr. (1804-1881), Salem, Mass.; 1881, by inheritance to his wife, Marianne C. D. Silsbee (1812-1889); descended in the Silsbee family to her great-granddaughter, Marianne M. Beach, Salem, Mass. Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I.; to MFA, 1964, bequest of Maxim Karolik.
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