Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: The streetcar on Tremont Street, 1895–97, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor., 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. (35.8 x 28.4 cm), Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), The Tremont Street streetcar linked central Boston with Roxbury, Prendergast’s home in 1895 and 1896. Prendergast contrasts the quiet passenger in the foreground with the indecorous female boarding the car, her flouncing costume and rounded silhouette provocatively calling attention
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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook, streetcar, Tremont Street, 1895–97, Recto, watercolor, pencil, bordered, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16, 35.8 28.4 cm, Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1858–1924, New York, Tremont, Street, linked, central, Boston, Roxbury, Prendergast, home, 1895, 1896, Prendergast contrasts, quiet passenger, foreground, indecorous female, boarding, car, flouncing costume, rounded silhouette, provocatively, calling, attention
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