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Album of Western Sketches: Sketches at Saratoga

Album of Western Sketches: Sketches at Saratoga

(English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836
Place DepictedSaratoga, United States
Medium/TechniquePen and black ink on paper
DimensionsSheet: 16.0 x 20.6 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number56.400.3
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsPen and black ink: under top left sketch: "The Railway"; under top center sketch: "water drinkers"; under top right sketch: ""Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man."! -Shakespeare"; Under bottom left sketch: "The Ballroom"; Around bottom right sketch: "The Sake, and its heroes"; "Sketches at Saratoga, August 1836 G T" In lower margin in pen and black ink: Saratoga
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956