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New Orleans from the Battleground
1846
Medium/Technique
Brown wash on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.0 x 31.3 cm (7 7/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number59.163
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 0766 (Visiting foreign artists)
DescriptionVisiting foreign artists- anonymous. Two floats on river. Tree stumps on bank; Negroes chopping and piling wood beyond. City in distance. By same hand as 59.164, 60.818, 60.817, 59.162
InscriptionsIn ink on verso: New Orleans from Battle Ground, about 7 miles distant-/ 3 Nov: 1846/ The tree on the right hand shows the long gray moss "Tillandsia usneoides" streaming/ from the branches-
Provenance1959, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 12, 1959)