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Watercolor

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1820-1850

GUSN

GUSN-2603

Description

Rectangular format, small study of a flower combination in red. white and blue flowers and green stems and leaves on a bare background. In black moulded frame with yellow stripe, glazed; in its original glass.

Details

Descriptive Terms

still lifes
watercolors (paintings)
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
watercolor (paint)
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Pencil
Painted
PICTURE, STILL LIFE

Inscription

Handwritten in script in fountain pen on a white piece of paper adhered to board reverse: Mrs. Geo. B. Frost

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

8.5 x 6 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.820

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