"COASTING SCENE AT HARTFORD, 1856"

“Coasting Scene at Hartford (Connecticut) 1856”

(The artist with grandson and the family dog,
townspeople cavorting in the snow;
“Wood-burning” BOSTON train pulling out of the old depot)

WILLIAM FOSTER OTIS
born 1801, Boston; died 29 May, 1856,
while on travel in Versailles, France.
water colors on paper, 13" x 19-1/2"

# 3015 ........................................ $ 12,000.
Old typed label on back reads:
“...Mr. Otis painted this for Little Willie Eliot, when he was visiting his daughter and son-in-law the Samuel Eliots, at Hartford. A wood-burning train is pulling out of the old depot -- long since demolished. Mr. Otis, with Willie by the hand, is at the lower left. The ferocious animal is the family dog, ‘Bounce.’ ”