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Memorial for John Combs
American
about 1816
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Image: 39.4 x 50.2 cm (15 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.) oval
Sheet: 40.0 x 50.3 cm (15 3/4 x 19 13/16 in.) corners cut
Sheet: 40.0 x 50.3 cm (15 3/4 x 19 13/16 in.) corners cut
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number60.1089
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1204 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- memorials. Funerary urn under willow tree right; oak tree left. Elaborate buildings left and right with towers and cupolas. Two printed labels on tomb.
InscriptionsOn tomb above: four-line verse; below: AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN COMBS/ WHO DIED MARCH 14TH, 1816, AGED 10 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS.
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)