Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1995.576.02
- Creator:
- Bartlett, Laura (1799-1872)
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1815
- Description:
- Painting. Mourning picture for Josiah Bartlett, attributed to Laura Bartlett (1799-1872); c. 1815. Watercolor on paper. Woman at right, wearing white dress, black shawl, and black veil, places a garland of roses around a monument's urn. The monument, topped with a large urn; "BORN JUST / TO / BLOOM AND / FADE", and square base; "SACRED / To the memory / OF/ JOSIAH BARTLETT / Obit Septr. 26th 1802 / AE11Mos." Plants and tree (weeping willow) around monument. Lake and trees in background with church at right. Gilded gesso over wood frame with interior twist molding, glazed; eglomise oval with gilded border and black painted spandrels.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.3 W-8.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- Found in Collection
- Subjects:
- Death, Memory, Monuments memorials, Mourning, Mourning works
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