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Print - Mourning Picture

2018-22-1

Printed mourning picture or memorial in wood frame. Hand-colored lithograph showing a woman in black crepe dress with white bertha collar, white bonnet with black band, purple shawl of cloak, and purse with jet decoration. Woman stands next to a plinth of white stone on a raised stone platform. Carved into stone is design with text, "TO THE/MEMORY/OF." White stone urn placed on top of plinth. The mourning scene is surrounded with various plants and flowers, with an evergreen tree and willow tree visible behind the plinth. In the background, at right, is a town scene of white building with brown roofs. The closest building (seen from the rear) has large arched windows and a central steeple terminating in a flat top (no spire). A second building father in the distances has a central steeple with a visible spire. Print is framed under glass in a wood frame with thin veneer, all finished in a dark stain. The veneer appears to have an elaborated, fabricated wood grain pattern. Reverse of frame is finished in a lighter stain. Attached to a wood board (likely an original backing board for the print) is a printed advertisement for Austin S. Burwell, a clockmaker in Bristol, Connecticut. The advertisement is framed under glass held by a simple frame of thin wood, likely a later addition to the piece. Affixed below the advertisement is a paper label with a handwritten note, in ink, "For Marion's old fashioned bed/room/from Geo Dudley Seymour.

Purchased or given by George Dudley Seymour (1859-1945), a noted historian, attorney, and author from Bristol. CT. Seymour was the uncle of the donor's father-in-law.

• D. W. Kellogg & Co.

c.1835

Overall width 19.625", height 22.25", depth 1"

• glass
• wood
• ink
• paper