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Family Group
American
19th century
Medium/Technique
Modified watercolor and graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.88 x 35.2 cm (10 3/16 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 Number56.438
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1200, fig. 296 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk Art- Memorial - Woman in center holding scroll facing woman with two children left; at right man offering book to woman over low holly tree. Palms at extreme left and right. rose bordered oval
InscriptionsOn scroll in pen and ink: This is a land / immortal This/ beautiful of lands/ that glorious land / is heaven and / mortals who pass/ through it are mortals never/ more./ ab. initio/ P. Punt,, (?or JS Fenton)
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)