Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
1820-1840
GUSN-2601
Bunch of vari-colored flowers in original wide mahoagny veneer frame, glazed.
still lifes
watercolors (paintings)
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
watercolor (paint)
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Pencil
Painted
PICTURE, STILL LIFE
1. Typewritten entry on jelly label at upper left corner of board backing: Mrs. Emily [sic] (Goodwin) Poor,/ born Portland, Maine, 1790./ married Daniel Adams Poor of/ Andover. Her dau. married a/ Patch. Bought at auction, Ptach hse, Ipswich, Aug. 1947. 2. On jelly lebel to right of #1, with a fountain pen entry] Loaned/ by/ N. F. Little 3. At lower half of wood backing reverse bears an illegible inscription in white chalk.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
15.25 x 13.5 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.818
Massachusetts (United States)
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
