Bird Picking Strawberries from Basket of Fruit, I

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Bird Picking Strawberries from Basket of Fruit, I

Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840

Medium/Technique Watercolor with stencil, pen and blue, black and brown ink on velvet

Dimensions Sheet: 38.1 x 48.3cm (15 x 19 in.)
Framed: 60.3 x 69.9 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number51.2780

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsWatercolors

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 1302 (Folk artists)

DescriptionFolk art- velvets. Variant of nos. 62.141 and 62.142. Basket of fruit, blue marble top table, upper center bird with long tail reaching down from leafy stem of grapes. Butterfly upper left.

Provenance1951, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 1951)