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Memorial Wreath

Memorial Wreath

Medium/TechniquePen and ink and tempera, touched with gum arabic on cardboard
DimensionsSheet: 49.4 x 63.5 cm (19 7/16 x 25 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number56.437
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsIn pen and ink on scroll: " A band of angel loved ones/ Are guarding you while here/ Father Mother Sisters brothers/ And a wife your heart hold dear/ And your little buds transplanted/ Grow in beauty on our shore/ And with us will greet you gladly/ When the toils of life are o'er."
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)

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