Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass.
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Object numberRIF3531 |
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MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Colvin, 17941869Maker, attributed to George Robert Lawton, 18131885 |
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Dimensions10 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 12 3/4 in. (26.67 × 44.45 × 32.385 cm) |
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Date1842 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Scituate, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumPine |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceRachel Young (19171982), North Scituate and West Warwick, Rhode Island; sold to Robert Grabosky, Strasburg, Pennsylvania; Skinner, Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton, Massachusetts), January 67, 1983, lot 99D. Ralph O. Esmerian, New York |
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Associated namesSkinner, Inc.Rachel Young Robert F. Grabosky Ralph O. Esmerian |
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NotesThe box is painted black, ivory, gray, and salmon. |
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BibliographySkinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Mass., An Auction of Americana, sale cat. (January 6 7, 1983), 184, lot 99D, ill.Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, exh. cat. (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 424425, no. 77. Jane Katcher and Alan Andersen, Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, eds. David A. Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe, 2 (Seattle: Marquand Books, 2011). |