Collage
- Title:
- A Christmas Offering
- Object Name:
- Collage
- Object ID:
- 2013.002
- Creator:
- Merrill, Edward West (1841-1910)
Artist ; Sani, Alessandro (1856-1927)Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1894
- Description:
- Birchbark Picture. "A Christmas Offering," by Edward West Merrill (1841-1910), Concord, NH, c. 1894. Birchbark and watercolor on paper. Black painted background. Seated nun receiving two chickens from a woman who is carrying a basket on her left arm. Figures are formed of birchbark, with lithographed faces and hands. Chair and background details are white watercolor. Titled " 'A CHRISTMAS OFFERING' " in white watercolor on a separate piece of black-painted paper that is adhered to back of window mat at bottom. Signed in white watercolor, lower right: "DRAWN ON BIRCH BARK / BY E.W. MERRILL / CONCORD / N.H." In original mat and original oak frame. Based on an 1894 print of the painting, "A Christmas Offering" by Alessandro Sani.
- Material:
- Paper
Wood
Birchbark - Dimensions:
- H-21.7 W-28.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally belonged to Davis D. Tuttle (d. 1925) and Dilla R. Bartlett Tuttle of Munson, Ohio.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Jacquelyn Tuttle
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