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Magic Lake
Medium/Technique
Black and white chalk on prepared paper (sandpaper)
Dimensions
Overall: 52.1 x 70.5cm (20 1/2 x 27 3/4in.)
Framed: 62.9 x 78.1 cm (24 3/4 x 30 3/4 in.)
Framed: 62.9 x 78.1 cm (24 3/4 x 30 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number62.115
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CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1191, fig. 287 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- Sandpapers and pastels. Fantastic landscape framed by entrance of grotto. Two small girls, one with wand, standing on shore of moonlit lake center. Ghostly figures above wooded shore left. Arched rock right. After an engraving by John Sartain after James Hamilton, "The Magic Lake, a scene from The Pilgrim of Love," for Sartain's Magazine. Found near Chester, VT. Another version 65.1313
InscriptionsLL scratched: title
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA June 8, 1964; accessioned February 14, 1962