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The Aged Pastor

Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, 1822–1888)
1850–59

Medium/Technique Graphite and gray wash on board
Dimensions Sheet: 38.1 x 30.5 cm (15 x 12 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number61.267
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik (1962) cat. 240
DescriptionOld man holding litte girl and talking to two children standing by tree. Illustration to "Recollections of an Aged Pastor." For engraving by W. Humphrys in Poems by Lydia Sigourney (1850's).
Marks Blind stamp lower right: LONDON ABRAIDED DRAWING BOARD
InscriptionsInscribed lower left in pen and ink: F.O.C. Darley - fecit; inscribed lower center in graphite: "Often have no hush'd / The shrillish echo of our holiday, / Turning our mirth to neverence as ho pass'd, / And eager to record one favoring smile, / Oh word paternal." Lower right in graphite: Recollections of an Aged Pastor
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1961