"COASTING SCENE AT HARTFORD, 1856", wood-burning " BOSTON" train pulling out of the old depot

“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 folded paper -- professionally conserved and deacidified, leaving fold lines faintly visible

# 03015 .............................................................................................................................. $ 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.’ ”