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The Mournful Ballad of Susanna Cox
1810–50
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 38.6 x 30.6 cm (15 3/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number60.1116
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1315, fig. 342 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Eight of possible thirty-two stanzas, the first two with colored and ornamented lettering at top, followed by three in German script on either side of large floral design.
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)