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Design for Broadway Railroad and Elevated Promenade, New York

John B. Wickersham (American, 19th century)

Medium/Technique Ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 15.7 x 61.6 cm (6 3/16 x 24 1/4 in.) (irregular)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number51.2545
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 739
DescriptionLong elevated iron platform with horsecar center. Pedestrians in front of block of buildings with many windows. People and vehicles along street.
Inscriptionsin ink below: Wickersham's plan for Broadway railroad and elevated promenade, longitudinal view
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 8, 1951