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Looking toward the range up Georgetown Creek [Colorado]
William F. Phipps (American, active 1850–1890)
Medium/Technique
Gray wash on paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.0 x 40.6 cm (10 1/4 x 16 in.)
Sheet: 31.9 x 44.0 cm (12 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 31.9 x 44.0 cm (12 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number53.2454
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 613
DescriptionWinding creek in valley center, with steep wooded slopes; mountains in distance.
InscriptionsLR margin in graphite: W F Phipps; in ink: title; On Verso at bottem in ink: Hold at a distance for it is done roughly / One of my first attempts.-; at left; Douglass M't.; center: Union Pass over / this low "divide"; upper right: Colfax; lower right: Foot of Columbia or Griffith M't.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1953