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Painting Case with eighteen palettes

(American, 1777–1807)
about 1800
Object PlaceUnited States
Medium/TechniqueIvory, pigments
Dimensions13.97 x 30.48 x 22.86 cm (5 1/2 x 12 x 9 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.117
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Collections
InscriptionsEngraved "EGM" in sprigged script on lid of cylindrical case.
ProvenanceOwned originally by the artist Edward Green Malbone (1777-1807); nineteenth-century history unknown; owned by the dealer Alvin C. Detweiler of Washington D.C., in May 1937; acquired from Detweiler by the Karoliks before January 1939.
Mrs. James Otis Carter
Edward Greene Malbone
1797
Washington Allston
Edward Greene Malbone
about 1801
Aaron Chase Dennis
Edward Greene Malbone
about 1803
Mrs. Jared Austin
Edward Greene Malbone
about 1807
John Quincy Blake
Edward Greene Malbone
Mrs. John Quincy Blake
Edward Greene Malbone
about 1800–05
Thomas Russell
Edward Greene Malbone
1797
Mrs. J. L. Sullivan
Edward Greene Malbone
John Langdon Sullivan
Edward Greene Malbone
Thomas Russell
Edward Greene Malbone
Daniel Russell
Edward Greene Malbone