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Mourning Picture - Polly Botsford and Her Children, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Unknown  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor and ink on paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection Williamsburg Virginia 23185 Accession Number: 33.304.1
Date:
Ca. 1815
Notes:
Little, Nina Fletcher, "The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller folk art collection: a descriptive catalogue," Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1957.
Stebbins, American Master Drawings & Watercolors, History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to Present,harper& Row,n.y.,1976
"Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center," Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1989, no. 133.
Image on file.
Stebbins, Amer. Master Drawings & Watercolors, Hist of Works On Paper from Colonial Times to Pres.,harper & Row,n.y.,1976,fig 64.
"Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center," Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1989, no. 133.
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Topic:
Primitive--Mourning  Search this
Landscape--Cemetery  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Landscape--Tree--Willow Tree  Search this
Control number:
IAP 55970088
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_65913