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Memorial Wreath
Memorial Wreath

Memorial Wreath

Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
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
On View
Not on view
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)
Two Girls mourning by a Tomb, and an Angel blowing a Trumpet
Two Girls mourning by a Tomb, and an Angel blowing a Trumpet
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Image Not Available for Blockade of the Ohio, off after contraband
Blockade of the Ohio, off after contraband
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Watermelon on Earthenware Platter
Watermelon on Earthenware Platter
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
about 1840
A Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa Indica) in an Almond Tree, from the Impey Album
A Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa Indica) in an Almond Tree, from the Impey Album
Shaykh Zayn al-Din
1778
A Crimson Horned Pheasant (Tragopan Satyra), from the Impey Album
A Crimson Horned Pheasant (Tragopan Satyra), from the Impey Album
Ram Das
1778–1783
Image Not Available for Family Record of John Flynn and Sarah Meigham. Sept. 3rd 1856
Family Record of John Flynn and Sarah Meigham. Sept. 3rd 1856
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
1856
MacLean Asylum, Somerville, Massachusetts
MacLean Asylum, Somerville, Massachusetts
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
about 1840
Man riding a plodding Horse
Man riding a plodding Horse
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Stag leaping to the left
Stag leaping to the left
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Morse Family Record with portraits
Morse Family Record with portraits
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Shepherdess
Shepherdess
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
Anthony and Hartshorn Memorials
Anthony and Hartshorn Memorials
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840