Watercolor, gum arabic, pen and black ink, lead white, and graphite on white wove paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 66.242.9
Date:
Ca. 1830
Notes:
Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 158, 354.
Summary:
A mourning picture depicting a two young children, one dressed in pink, the other in blue, standing beside a memorial topped with an urn. The memorial is inscribed with: "Passing s[t]ranger stop and see,/Thy form must soon lie low with me,/Love they neighbour as thy self,/Be kind to the poor and fatherless,/Trust in god, believe in Christ,/That you may have eternal rest." Behind the memorial stands a weeping willow tree, and in the distance there is a river with a sailboat floating down the middle and a church standing on the riverbank.
