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View of Boston from Chelsea
Merrill Greene Wheelock (American, 1822–1866)
1866
Place Depicted: Boston, Massachuesetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.6 x 49.8 cm (12 7/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number58.915
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 717
DescriptionDomed Statehouse in distance. Tug, steamers and sailing boats in middle distance center. Corner of wharf in foreground left. Reflections in water.
InscriptionsOn back of original mount in graphite: A mere lazy trial sketch in partial imitation of the / style only of one whose great and renowned excellence / ought to have deterred me, together with my great admiration for him/ from it. It is lucky however that my mental and bodily / condition at this time rendered it impossible for to attain / enough truth of resemblance to subject a libel suit/ M. G. W. 1866 (The subject matter of the sketch is a mere recollection / of the splendid Harbor view from Chelsea- of which I / made another afterwards from an outline pencil sketch / that I happened to turn in looking over my things.)
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA September 18, 1958