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Horizontal panel of birds and tulips
1827
Medium/Technique
Watercolor, pen and brown and red ink, graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.1 x 30.2 cm (9 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3850
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1323, fig. 348 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Two pairs of birds at right and left of urn bearing heart with large tulip. Decorative border.
InscriptionsIn red ink in heart: "Maria Caumennij zu Libanan Township in / Libanan Country gerhört / dises bilt / 1827" Below heart in black: "1827"
ProvenanceGeorge Horace Lorimer; Harry Stone, NY; purchased for MFA by Maxim Karolik, Newport Dec. 14, 1950