The Folk Art Collection of Jon and Rebecca Zoler

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Lot 690
  • 690

American School, 19th Century)

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Description

  • American School
  • Two Boys Playing Marbles on a Yellow Carpet
  • watercolor, pinpricking, pen and ink on paper
  • 9 3/8 by 7 3/8 in. 23.4 by 18.4cm
dated 1820; in a period gilt frame.

Provenance

Elliot and Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Massachusetts

Catalogue Note

The boys depicted in front of a wall on which hang two miniature theorems of a fruit basket and a flower basket. Although they are dressed in the fashion of 1790-1820, the watercolor was probably done in Connecticut circa 1820-1825.

For a virtually identical image of boys playing marbles, see Katharine Morrison McClinton, Antiques of American Childhood, pp. 204-205. The image derives from J. Johnson's 1802 "Youthful Recreations," Philadelphia.