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Memorial: For Christopher Whitney

Memorial: For Christopher Whitney

Medium/TechniquePen, watercolor, and pricking on paper
DimensionsImage: 20.0 x 24.9 cm (7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 20.3 x 25.7 cm (8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.834
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ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsOn base of urn in pen and ink: Sacred to the memory/ of/ Christopher Whitney/ who died Feby 15, 1824/ AE 4 months./ The beauteous child in gone!/ The much lov'd object's fled!; In margin below in pen: O lovely child! it's been thy fate, To meet an early grave! Your parents kind and anxious care, Could not their offspring save. Now, lovely plant we mourn thy fate! But hope shall dry our eyes; In a few years, O rapturous thought, We meet in yonder skies.
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 8, 1960)

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