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Seated Couple
Joseph H. Davis (American, 1811–1865)
Medium/Technique
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.2 x 34.3 cm (9 15/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 25.2 x 35.2 cm (9 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.2 x 35.2 cm (9 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number62.113
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1114 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- portraits. Man seated at left, wife at right of table on which lie bowl of fruit, books and writing paper. He holding Dover Gazzette in right hand, reaching for quill pen with left. She extending bouquet with right hand, holding sewing in left. Garland on wall center. Flower-patterned carpet.
InscriptionsVerso: graphite sketch of figures in same positions as on recto.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA June 8, 1964; Accessioned Feruary 14, 1962