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Collage of seaweed in a straw basket on a white ground, surrounding by a tan mat. Under glass in a plain molded gilt frame. Backed withewspaper and pine boards.
collage (technique)
gilding
glass (material)
paper (fiber product)
algae (protists)
wood (plant material)
baskets (containers)
Collage
Seaweed
Unidentified Paper
Glass
Gilded
Fruit Basket
Collage
pat3A poem on the tan mat reads: Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.For lovely, and bright, and gay-tinted are we,
Our blush is as deep as the rose of thy bowers;
Then call us not weeds-we are Ocean's gay flowers.
Not nursed like the plants of a summer parterre,
When gales are but sighs of an evening air;
Our exquisite, fragile, and delicate forms
Are nursed by the ocean, and rocked by its storms.
... Dated April 7, 1865. (Poem titled Flowers of the Ocean by E.L. Aveline -1812)
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
11 1/8 x 9 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1698.1-2
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