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View of Driscoll's Stone Building that Checked the Great Fire in Virginia City, October 26, 1875
B. C. Turnbull (American, 19th century)
1875
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil, pen and ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Image: 39.4 x 53.0 cm (15 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.) (laid down)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number51.2543
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 685, fig. 143
DescriptionStreet scene with one-story stone building, center. Ruined brick buildings in foreground extreme left and right. Mountains suggested in distance left.
InscriptionsLR in pen on mat: Sketched on the spot by B.C. Turnbull; below: view of driscoll's stone building that checked the great fire in virginia city, october 26th 1875.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 8, 1952