Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
Jane Anthony Davis (1821 - 1855)
A Lady and a Gentleman from Rhode Island, Holding a Portable Harmonium and Ivory Walking Stick: A Pair
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 25, 08:25 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
watercolor and graphite on paper
circa 1840
6 ½ in. by 4 ½ in.
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Charles Santore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Sotheby's, New York, Fine American Furniture, Folk Art, Folk Paintings, and Silver, June 21, 1989, sale 5883, lot 168;
Barbara Pollack, Sunapee, New Hampshire, 1989.
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 228, fig. 398.
Several works by Davis are illustrated and discussed in American Folk Portraits, Paintings and Drawings in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Beatrix T. Rumford, General Editor, Boston, 1981, pp. 79-82.
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