House Blessing: "Die Menschen bauen sich oft Hauser und Palaste"

Medium/TechniqueWatercolor, pen and red and brown ink on paper

DimensionsSheet: 31.8 x 38.3cm (12 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.)
Framed: 45.1 x 54 cm (17 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession number50.3840

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ClassificationsWatercolors

Collections

InscriptionsUnder arches in pen, red ink and watercolor: verses- "Die Menschen bauen sich oft Hauser und Pallaste"

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA December 14, 1950 Coll.: Lorimer (sale cat., part I, no. 376)

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

after 1783

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

1790–1850

Unidentified artist, American, early 19th century

1803

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

about 1831

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

1804

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

Unidentified artist, American, 18th century

1793

Unidentified artist, American, 18th century

1750–1800

Unidentified artist, American, 19th century

about 1815