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House on bluff above Railroad Train
Brewery With Keg on Weathervane
House on bluff above Railroad Train
about 1835
Place Depicted: PA, United States
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil and pastel on prepared board
Dimensions
Sheet: 55.9 x 71.3 cm (22 x 28 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.422
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1186, fig. 283 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk Art- sandpaper. On bank left three adjoining buildings with cupolas, flanked by two tall chimneys; house among trees right. Railroad train and horse-drawn bus at foot of bank; water along foreground. Various small figures. 1855 is date of lith by Kollner of Engel and Wolf's Brewery of which this seems to be a copy. Location of Kollner's scene is about 1 mile from Fairmount PK., Phila., PA.
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)