Florida Swamp

Mississippi Bayou

Joseph Rusling Meeker (American, 1827–1887)

Medium/Technique Black crayon with touches of red and white on prepared brown paper

Dimensions Sheet: 43.5 x 78.6 cm (17 1/8 x 30 15/16 in.) (two sheets joined)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number61.303

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 546 fig 118

DescriptionTall trees, hung with moss, growing in clumps in open expanse of water.

InscriptionsLL in graphite: J.R.M.

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1961