A BEACON HILL, BOSTON COLLECTION (lots 70 through 89C)
TREADWELL WATERCOLOR, WASHINGTON AT MT. VERNON
landscape with Mt. Vernon on rise, George Washington in foreground
watercolor on paper, 14.5" by 19.25" (sight), modern wood mat and frame, under glass
written in ink script on paper on reverse (removed when restored): Mount Vernon/ Painted by A.M. Treadwell at Mrs. Willard's school Middlebury Vermont 1814. Based on aquatint by Francis Jules March 30th 1800 from a painting by Alexander Robertson. See Antiques July 1977 pg. 2
A more recent note on reverse: For source of this print, see Gardens of Colony and State 1934, p. 59 "Mt Vernon in Virginia" 1800 Alexander Robertson, Delineator/Francis Jules, Sculptor
Prov.: Stephen Score Antiques, Essex, MA, 1983
Dr. Robert Bishop, Director of the Museum of American Folk Art in NYC, requested a transparency of this work for a book he was writing, 'Folk Arts in American Life'.
A related example executed in 1842, sans the likeness of Washington, is owned by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection. (See Black and Lipman, 'The Flowering of American Folk Art', fig. 128)
Some professional restoration to tears and creases at edges. Good colors.
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000
Realized: $5,000 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 70 : A BEACON HILL, BOSTON COLLECTION (lots 70 through 89C)
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