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Album of Western Sketches: "Taking a scrape coolly,"

Album of Western Sketches: "Taking a scrape coolly,"

(English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1839
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite pencil, on gray paper
DimensionsSheet: 12.2 x 16.4 cm (4 13/16 x 6 7/16 in.) Corners cut
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number56.400.37
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLC in pen and black ink: title LR in pen and black ink: G.T. 1839
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956
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Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: Niagara, the Horse Shoe Fall, from Above
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Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: Niagara, from the staircase, on the American Side
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George Tattersall
1836
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George Tattersall
1836
Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: A Yankee "Subject"
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George Tattersall
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Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: The Whirlpool, on the Niagara River, 27 Aug. 1836
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George Tattersall
1836
Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches:Your's very Truly a friend, Peter Long Fellow
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1837
Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: Lorette, L[ower] C[anada]
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1836
Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: Lorette, an Indian Village, Lower Canada
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1836
Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: Lake Champlain
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George Tattersall
1836
Image Not Available for Album of Western Sketches: Quebec, in Winter, from Point Levi
Album of Western Sketches: Quebec, in Winter, from Point Levi
George Tattersall
1840