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Mrs. (Thomas) Sarah Best

(American, 1785–1851)
1820
Medium/TechniqueGraphite and black chalk on paper, possibly touched with a neutral wash
DimensionsSheet: 29.5 x 24.29 cm (11 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number52.1564
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsInscription upper right: "Sarah Best / Audubon / 1820"
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 13, 1952
Thomas Best
John James Audubon
1820
Study for "Waking Up": Boy with Straw
James Goodwyn Clonney
about 1851
Mortar Boats
James David Smillie
April 1862
Jasper Francis Cropsey
September 1857
Jasper Francis Cropsey
1863
James Wells Champney
1863–1903
Portrait of a Woman
Anonymous, French School, 1767–1855
1812
Reception of Major Robert Anderson, Cincinnati
Henry Mosler
Probably Spring, 1861