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The Missouri River and Council Bluffs

Frederick Hawkins Piercy (English, 1830–1891)
1853

Medium/Technique Brush and wash on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 16.5 x 25.6 cm (6 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3976
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik (1962) cat. 820
DescriptionTwo Native Americans in the left foreground, looking down at figures and covered wagons traveling on a road.
InscriptionsInscribed on verso in graphite: View of the Missouri River & / Council Bluffs from an elevation / Drawn by Frederick Piercy / 1853
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA December 14, 1950