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An almost square format, still life with a fluted blue bowl sprinkled with mica. It is filled with stenciled fruit of indeterminate kinds in yellow, pink and purple shades. In an original red-painted frame and glass.
still lifes
watercolors (paintings)
ink
mica (mineral)
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
fruit
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Ink
Mica
Fruit
PICTURE, STILL LIFE
In fancy penmanship with ink, in the center base of the picture reads: French Fruit . Also in ink in the lower right corner of the picture is: Mary Ann H. Stearns/Billerica, Sept. 1827. [NFL- the signature is very hard to read]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Stearns, Mary Ann H. (Maker)
Billerica, MA, USA
14.5 x 15 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1252
Massachusetts (United States)
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