Affliction in Utah
1820–65
Medium/TechniqueGraphite on paper
DimensionsSheet: 16 x 16.4 cm (6 5/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number55.765
InscriptionsInscribed above: Bereaned - O dear another wife taken away. Sixteen wives lost / in half the number of years. Oh dear my heart will break / Friend - I feel your woes my dear brother, but you must seek / consolation in prayer to St. John Smith and dwell on / the consoling fact that you still have twenty eight wives / left and eighteen - pairs of suckling twins - moreover / I will loan you half a dozen chore wives for a / few weeks to (something illegible) your grief, if when you / get in your new stock, you / can return the favour.
Inscribed below: A Scene of deep affliction / in UtahProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955
