Important Americana
Important Americana
Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
Micah Williams (1782 - 1837)
Lady in a Blue Dress, Possibly of New Brunswick, New Jersey
No reserve
Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
pastel on paper
circa 1821
24 in. by 21 in.
retaining its original white pine strainer, the work backed by New Brunswick, New Jersey newspaper dated 1821
Mary Allis, Newtonville, Massachusetts;
Hirschl & Adler Folk, New York.
Mrs. Irwin Cortelyou, "Micah Williams," Magazine Antiques, November 1960, p. 461;
Magazine Antiques, November 1969, p. 762, illustrated in Mary Allis' house;
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 242, fig. 413.