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Flying Dragon


Medium/Technique Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 30.0 x 33.6 cm (11 13/16 x 13 3/14 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number60.1115
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 1318, fig. 344 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Profile to left with barbed tongue and spiked tail; geometrical decoration.
InscriptionsLC in ink: Flying [d]raggon
ProvenanceBy 1952, Childs Gallery, Boston; 1952, sold by Childs Gallery to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1960, gift of Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)