Birthday Register: Abigail Clark

Artist Unknown

Date1812

Geographic OriginMorris County, New Jersey | United States of America

MediumPen and ink and watercolor on cream laid paper

DimensionsSheet: H 9 7/8 x W 7 5/8 in. (H 25.1 x W 19.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Elizabeth Beers, 1966

Object number66.408

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Title Details

Artist title Birthday Register: Abigail Clark

Remarks 1981 collection catalogue

Inscriptionsrecto, all in brown ink: t.c. on urn: "1812"; UC: "A Birthday Regester / when I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, / I'll bid farewell to every tear And wipe my weeping eyes / A charge to keep I have A god to glorify (The skies / A orever dying soul to Save And fitt it for"; lwr.ctr.: "ABIGAIL CLARK / Was Born May; 25.th / 1794".Marks and Labels/Stampsverso, u.c., upside down: "RD".; Printed label on old frame backing: "From [graphite:] Miss Elizabeth Beers / Epilepsy - understanding is half the treatment / To [blue ink:] Newark Museum / CONTENTS MERCHANDISE, FOURTH CLASS MAIL, POSTMASTER - THIS PARCEL MAY / BE OPENED FOR INSPECTION IF NECESSARY. RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED"; printed label on new frame backing removed to file: "OFA[logo] OLLENDORF FINE ARTS / FINE ART PACKERS AND SHIPPERS / NEW YORK -- SAN FRANCISCO / Lot No. / [blue ink:] 7538 / Piece No. / [blue ink:] 68".ProvenanceSubject's great granddaughter, Elizabeth Beers, East Orange, New JerseyExhibition History"Small Folk, A Celebration of Childhood in America," New-York Historical Society, New York, November 1980.

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