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Pelican Feeding Her Young
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century (American)
Medium/Technique
Watercolor, pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 11.7 x 7.5 cm (4 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.760
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1317, fig. 343 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Symbol of redemption and atonement (Psalms, CII, 6). Stylized design with border lines crossing at corners. Probably a Bible bookmark. Probably by same hand as in Shelley, Fraktur-Writings, fig. 51
ProvenanceNadelman (Lancaster); to Maxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA October 11, 1956