Lot 1257
  • 1257

American School, 19th Century

Estimate
20,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • American School, 19th Century
  • Family by the Seashore
  • Watercolor, pen and ink on paper heightened with pin pricking
  • 16 1/2 by 19 in.
the lady with a parasol has gilt foil jewels; appears to retain the original molded frame and glass. 

Provenance

Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; Acquired by Nina Fletcher Little, Brookline, Massachusetts (1941);
Sotheby's, New York, The Bertram K Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, January 29, 1994, sale 6526, lot 100.

Exhibited

Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, "Land and Seascape as Observed by the Folk Artist," January 13-May 11, 1969, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 14, fig. 16.

Condition

Some abrasions, loses, and fly specs. The background paper has darkened.
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