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Mourning Picture: Woman beside an Obelisk [in pencil:] Hudson Valley Woman
American
About 1810
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor, varnished on paper with applied mica
Dimensions
Sheet: 36.4 x 42.9 cm (14 5/16 x 16 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number54.1076
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1199, fig. 295 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- memorials. Young woman holding portion of festoon of leaves and flowers entwining tomb left. Building right, trees left.
Marks
Watermark: Edwards & Pine, 1807
Provenance1954, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 14, 1954)