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Memorial Picture "In Memory of Levi and Simon Davis" Rebecca Davis Patrick (1797-1835), Worcester County, Massachusetts, c. 1815
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Memorial Picture "In Memory of Levi and Simon Davis"
Rebecca Davis Patrick (1797-1835), Worcester County, Massachusetts, c. 1815
Depicting a mourning woman clad in blue next to a tomb under a willow tree, the row of buildings in background including a view of Boston's Faneuil Hall likely copied from an illustration printed in the March 1789 issue of Massachusetts Magazine; the tomb inscribed: "In Memory of Levi Davis Who was Born Feby 1 and died Feby 4 1796 & Simon G Davis Who Was born Jany 10 1813 and Died June 20 1815."
eglomisé mat signed "Rebecca Davis" (lower right)
watercolor, pen and ink on paper decorated with silver thread with an eglomisé surround and likely original frame
38.1 x 42.5cm (15 x 16 3/4 in).
Depicting a mourning woman clad in blue next to a tomb under a willow tree, the row of buildings in background including a view of Boston's Faneuil Hall likely copied from an illustration printed in the March 1789 issue of Massachusetts Magazine; the tomb inscribed: "In Memory of Levi Davis Who was Born Feby 1 and died Feby 4 1796 & Simon G Davis Who Was born Jany 10 1813 and Died June 20 1815."
eglomisé mat signed "Rebecca Davis" (lower right)
watercolor, pen and ink on paper decorated with silver thread with an eglomisé surround and likely original frame
38.1 x 42.5cm (15 x 16 3/4 in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Important Americana: The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Part I, Sale 6526, Sotheby's, New York, New York (29 January 1994), Lot 192.
Collection of Thomas D. Williams, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1954.
Literature
Illustrated in Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts, (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984), fig. 187, p. 142.
Exhibitions
Land and Seascape as Observed by the Folk Artist, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, Virginia, January 13 - May 11, 1969. Illustrated in the catalogue as fig. 40, p. 25.