Auction:

American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2538B

Location:

Boston

Date / Time :

March 06, 2011 11:00AM

Description:

American School, 19th Century

Townsend, West Village (Massachusetts). Signed and dated below in pencil "Sarah Jane Sampson Duxbury, Nov. 10th 1844." Graphite on thin card, 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in., in a period mahogany veneer frame. Condition: Toning.

Provenance: Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch collection, sold at Sotheby's April 29, 1977, lot 353.

Exhibitions: Reflections of 19th Century America: Folk Art From the Collection of Sybil and Arthur Kern, the Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts, September 19, 1979-June 15, 1980.
Estimate $400-600

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