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For George H. Peckham

Medium/TechniqueWatercolor and stencil, pen and brown ink on paper
DimensionsImage: 34.9 x 29.1 cm (13 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 39.1 x 33.0 cm (15 3/8 x 13 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.1091
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsOn tomb stone in brown ink: George H. Peckham/ Who died Sept. 18th 1845/ Aged 64 years/ "As we loved him in life/ we deplore him in death."; on smaller stone: Abbie l. Dodge/ Died/ Apl.2nd 1853/ AE 2 mos; Another stone to right: Abbie T. Dodge/ Died Feb. 9th/ 1853/ Aged 31 yrs
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)
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Birth and baptism certificate of Anmaria Bensinger, born 1783
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after 1783