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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.)
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
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