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The Narrows at Staten Island, New York
Place Depicted: Staten Island, New York, United States
Medium/Technique
Pastel on prepared board (sandpaper)
Dimensions
Sheet: 40.5 x 59.7 cm (15 15/16 x 23 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number60.1086
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPastels
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1176 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- sandpapers and pastels. White figures foreground right, grass and trees, then houses then water with boats to horizon. Copy of engraving by E. Finden after W. H. Bartlett in N. P. Willis, American Scenery, London, 1840, vol. I, opp. p. 34
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)