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Album of Western Sketches: Sketches at Saratoga
George Tattersall (English, 1817–1849 (active U.S. 1836))
1836
Place Depicted: Saratoga, United States
Medium/Technique
Pen and black ink on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.0 x 20.6 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.400.3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 837 (Visiting Foreign Artists)
Description10 small sketches of figures.
InscriptionsPen and black ink: under top left sketch: "The Railway"; under top center sketch: "water drinkers"; under top right sketch: ""Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man."! -Shakespeare"; Under bottom left sketch: "The Ballroom"; Around bottom right sketch: "The Sake, and its heroes"; "Sketches at Saratoga, August 1836 G T"
In lower margin in pen and black ink: Saratoga
In lower margin in pen and black ink: Saratoga
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 7, 1956