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House Blessing
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House Blessing
Printer: Johann Ritter und Comp.
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, hand colored with wash on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 38.9 x 32.2 cm (15 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.794
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1382 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Six separate cuts. Printing limits. Cupid on cloud with verses left and right above panel; harvest vignette below. Flying cupid above bird on branch left and right.
InscriptionsLC printed: Reading: gedruckt und zu haben bey Johann Ritter und Comp
ProvenanceColl: Nadelman from Reading; Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956