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Lobster Point
Edward Meyer Kern (American, 1823–1863)
October 20, 1854
Medium/Technique
Watercolor over graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 18.8 x 29.1 cm (7 3/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number59.862
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 458
DescriptionTree in foreground. Rocky point projecting into the water.
InscriptionsInscribed in graphite lower left: Kern / Lobster Point Peel's Island - Oct 20 [21 is written in pen and ink over the graphite 20] 1854
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA Nov. 12, 1959 Given by the artist to Captain William Brenton Boggs, the Ringgold-Rodgers Expedition's purser; bought from Bogg's granddaughter by Maxim Karolik.