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Watercolor

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1800-1824

GUSN

GUSN-11180

Description

In square format, a pair of vases of flowers done in pinks and green with delicate stems in an ivory colored background. Plain cream colored wood frames with mitered corners. Each flower was composed by multiple stencils.

Details

Descriptive Terms

still lifes
watercolors (paintings)
paper (fiber product)
stenciling
watercolor (paint)
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Theorem
Stenciled
PICTURE, STILL LIFE

Inscription

In black ink at the base of the vase in the image is written: N.J. Vaughan.

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

13.688 x 13.875 x 0.75 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1195.2

Reference Notes

Little, Nina Fletcher. "Artist's Boxes", American Art Journal, Spring 1980. [No Publisher].

Related Items

Title Watercolor Accession Number 1991.1195.1

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