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Memorial for Abiathar R. and Horace B. Wolcott, d.1816
American
about 1816
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Image: 42.4 x 55.6 cm (16 11/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 43.3 x 56.5 cm (17 1/16 x 22 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 43.3 x 56.5 cm (17 1/16 x 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.743
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1212, fig. 302 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk Art- memorials. Funerary urn left with lilies and willows beside a stream shaded by tree with ivy around trunk. Road leading to church and houses right; hills in background.
Marks
Watermark: J Whatman
InscriptionsOn tomb in pen: SACRED/ To the memory of/ ABIATHAR R. and HARACE B. / Sons of Abiathar and Mary Wolcott./ Abiathar died Sept. 15th 1816./ Aged 15 years./ Horace died May 11th 1816/ Aged 1 year.
Below in pen: three-line verse
Below in pen: three-line verse
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)