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MacLean Asylum, Somerville, Massachusetts
about 1840
Medium/Technique
Black and white chalk with some pen and ink on prepared board
Dimensions
Sheet: 49.4 x 69.7 cm (19 7/16 x 27 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number54.1613
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1173, fig. 272 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- sandpapers and pastels. Part of Charlestown when opened by Trustees of Massachusetts General Hospital in 1818. McLean Hospital is now in Waverly, Mass.
Copy of engraving by G.G. Smith after Hammatt Billings, from sketch by Seager.
Copy of engraving by G.G. Smith after Hammatt Billings, from sketch by Seager.
Provenance1954, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)