Painting

Title:

Abbot Family Record

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1973.059

Creator:

Unknown

Place of Origin:

Lebanon, NH

Date:

1825

Description:

Painting. Record of the Abbot Family, unknown artist, 1825. Watercolor and ink on paper. Family record of Abbot Family of Hooksett, NH. Mourning picture at bottom of a family record with woman leaning on monument; funerary urn at top and inscribed: "To all the memo / ry of Miss SALLY ABBOT / Died at Concord"; woman is holding an anchor in her left hand; weeping willow at left and hangs over monument. Trees, several buildings, including one with a turret, and mountains in background; large yellow flower pots with roses in foreground; a variety of blossoms continue upwards and over creating a border, ending with two birds on a flowering branch upper center. Ink inscription of an incomplete family record above mourning picture: "Joshua Abbot was born / Ann Manning / Married / Their Children / Mariann was born / Philip / Elizabeth / Mary / Joshua / Susan / Sally Died / Margaret Swan / Dorothy-Merrill / Nancy / William-Preside / Elmira / Benjamin-Franklin Died / Joseph Warren Died / Cynthia Jane / Walter-Harris, / May virtue o'er our steps preside / and wisdom every action guide: / Till sister-Angels point the way, / to blissful realms of perfect day." Horizontal border with text, between family record and mourning picture. On the left, between the paper edge and flower border, inscription based on Job (14:2-2): "Man cometh like a flower / of a field and is cut down." Central inscription based on a quote by Pythagoras of Samos: "Let not sleep fall upon our eyes till we have thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. / Where have we deviated from the paths of Rectitude? What have we been doing? what have we left undone that we ought / to have done? begins thus, and proceed; and, at the ill, be troubled, and rejoice at the good. Lebanon, N.H. Oct. 18, 1825." Right inscription based on Revelation 14:13, between flower border and paper edge: "Blessed are the dead / who die in the Lord." Matted. Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-13.95 W-10.9 inches

Provenance:

The donor, Roberta M. Carr (1926-2011), was the wife of Collins F. Carr (1920-2002), the great-great-grandson of Elmira (Abbot) Carr (1803-1870), one of the daughters of Joshua and Ann (Manning) Abbot.

Credit Line:

Gift of Roberta M. Carr

People:

Abbot, Joshua (1759-1837), Abbot, Philip (1780-1830), Abbot, Betsey (1787- ), Abbot, Mary (1786-1882), Abbot, Joshua (1789- ), Abbot, Susan (1790- ), Abbot, Sally (1793-1825), Abbot, Margaret (1795-1854), Abbot, Dorothy (1797- ), Abbot, Nancy (1799-1893), Abbot, William P. (1801- ), Abbot, Elmira (1803-1870), Abbot, Benjamin F. (1806-1811), Abbot, Joseph W. (1808-1808), Abbot, Cynthia J. (1810-1880), Abbot, Walter H. (1815-1892), Carr, Roberta M. (1926-2011), Abbot, Ann (1767-1850)

Subjects:

Mourning, Mourning works, Tombs, Family records, Pictorial, Family registers, Pictorial, Bible