- Title:
- In Memory of Josiah Prescott
- Object Name:
- Object ID:
- 1954.028.03
- Creator:
- Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888)
Lithographer - Date:
- 1846
- Description:
- Print. Mourning picture for Josiah Prescott (1780-1846), by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888), 1846. Hand-colored lithograph. Man and woman in mourning clothes at right; man gestures to monument at left; monument has a marbled finish and an urn on top; flowers in foreground and weeping willow to left behind monument; a Federal-style church, several tombstones on hill, and curving river with boats in background. Inscription on monument, printed as part illustration: "IN / MEMORY / OF". Below that is a pasted piece of paper with handwritten ink inscription: "Josiah Prescott / Who died Sept 17 1846 / Aged 65 / Sleeping in Jesus". Lower left corner in handwritten ink: "Pittsfield". Printed in margin, lower left corner: "LITH & PUB. BY N. CURRIER. " In the center: "280". Lower right corner "2 Spruce St. N. Y." Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-14.05 W-10 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary Wallace Burleigh Sanborn
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