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Two Girls mourning by a Tomb, and an Angel blowing a Trumpet
American
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor touched with gold on paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.8 x 48.3 cm (14 7/8 x 19 in.) (flattened oval)
Sheet: 39.8 x 49.8 cm (15 11/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 39.8 x 49.8 cm (15 11/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.440
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1198, fig. 294 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk Art- Memorial. Two women left and right, one holding Bible, other leaning on anchor, beside funerary urn against willow tree center. Angel upper left. Stream in middle distance; three-masted ship right. Buildings in distance. Inscription label removed from tomb.
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)