Watercolor of a Mother and Children at a Jail

Description:

Watercolor of a Mother and Children at a Jail, attributed to Miss Patten's School, early 19th century, depicting a woman with two small children extending a hand to a shoeless child, brick building and church in the background, in an oval, molded, gilt-gesso frame, ht. 11 1/2, wd. 9 1/2 in. (sight).

Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet, February 2, 1979, Lot 74; Gail Gitlen, Spencertown, New York, March 10, 1979.

Note: Watercolor based upon the mezzotint Charity, published by P. Stampa, London, 1802.
Provenance: The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art.
Estimate $400-600


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