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Mrs. (Thomas) Sarah Best

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
Thomas Best
John James Audubon
1820
Study for "Waking Up": Boy Looking Down from Rock
Study for "Waking Up": Boy Looking Down from Rock
James Goodwyn Clonney
about 1851
Study for "Waking Up": Boy with Straw
Study for "Waking Up": Boy with Straw
James Goodwyn Clonney
about 1851
Mortar Boats
Mortar Boats
James David Smillie
April 1862
The King's Tower, Corfe Castle, Dorset. Sept. 1857
Jasper Francis Cropsey
September 1857
The Greenwood Lake, N. J. 1863
Jasper Francis Cropsey
1863
Farmhouse at Price's Neck, Newport, R.I.
John Perry Newell
New Albany, Indiana
New Albany, Indiana
Henry Mosler
Reception of Major Robert Anderson, Cincinnati
Reception of Major Robert Anderson, Cincinnati
Henry Mosler
Probably Spring, 1861
U.S. Str. [Steamer] "Conestoga," Miss. Sqadron
Frederick Albert Castle
1864
Arrival of Mr. Lincoln at Camden Station, Baltimore
Arrival of Mr. Lincoln at Camden Station, Baltimore
Thomas Nast
Feb. 23, 1861
View of Culpeper, Va.
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century