Important Americana
Important Americana
Property from the Family of Lillian Marion Lang Harney
Edward Hicks (1780 - 1849)
Washington Passing the Delaware
Live auction begins on:
January 25, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
oil on walnut panel
dated 1817
16 in. by 21 ½ in.; frame 20 ¾ in. by 26 in.
the verso titled, initialed, and dated Washington Crossing Delaware/ E.H. 1817 Philada. beneath red calligraphic script; verso with two lines of indistinct graphite inscriptions, possibly one word is Brown; housed in its original paint-decorated yellow pine frame; together with a first edition copy of Edward Hicks, Memoirs of the Life and Religious Labors of Edward Hicks: Late of Newton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. (2 pieces)
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John Albert Harney (1913-1990) and his wife Lillian Marion Lang Harney (1911-2005);
to their daughter Alice "Alicia" Harney McGee (b. 1947);
thence by decent in the family.
Alice Ford, Edward Hicks: Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom, (New York: Abbervile Press, 1952), p. 154;
Mary C. Black with introduction and chronology by Alice Ford, Edward Hicks 1780-1849: A Special Exhibition Devoted to His Life and Work, (Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1960), p. 14, no. 20 (not illus.);
Eleanor Price Mather and Dorthy Canning Miller, Edward Hicks: His Peacable Kingdoms and Other Paintings, (East Brunswick, NJ: Associated University Press, 1983), pp. 28 & 117.
Carolyn J. Weekley, The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1999), p.156-7, 212, fig. 150.
Edward Hicks 1780-1849: A Special Exhibition Devoted to His Life and Work, September 30-October 30, 1960, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection at Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia.
