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Night by the Campfire


Medium/Technique Black and white chalk on sandpaper
Dimensions Sheet: 25.7 x 37.9 cm (10 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number1976.717
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

DescriptionFolk art- sandpapers. Figures around camp fire with tent in trees by the water. Moon in the clouds. After Currier and Ives print of 1861.
InscriptionsLower margin in ink: title; Kattie
Provenance1976, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 13, 1976)