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Bird's-Eye view of Bagdad, Kentucky
1859
Medium/Technique
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.2 x 40.6 cm (10 5/16 x 16 in.)
Sheet: 31.8 x 45.4 cm (12 1/2 x 17 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 31.8 x 45.4 cm (12 1/2 x 17 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.427
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1139 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk Art- Landscape. Large house with portico center, and fenced-in garden of flowers and ornamental trees. Rolling hills in background. Ox team drawing two-wheeled cart toward barn at extreme right.
Marks
Watermark: J. Whatman, Turkey Mill, 1846
InscriptionsLower margin in ink: title... 1859
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)