Watercolor Amos Tyler Mourning Picture

Description:

Watercolor Amos Tyler Mourning Picture, probably Palmer, Massachusetts, c. 1829, the central urn on an inscribed plinth with woman in a black gown beside, with a willow tree and a church in the background, ht. 7 1/4, wd. 9 in.

Note: Genealogical sources document an Amos Tyler being born August 14, 1791, in Warren, Massachusetts, and dying January 15, 1829, in Palmer, Massachusetts.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $2,500-3,500

There is a closed 3/4 in. tear at the top edge near the upper right corner, and a closed 1/4 in. tear in the right edge near the upper right corner.


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