AMERICAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1813

Memorial for Polly Botsford

Details

AMERICAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1813
Memorial for Polly Botsford
Inscribed In Memory of Mrs. Polly Botsford, who died July 15, 1813, Aged 59 Years
watercolor on paper
frame: 18 5/8 x 17 15/16 in.
Old jelly label on the back of the frame reads "WC P914 Mourning Picture In Memory of Mrs. Polly Botsford 013"

Provenance

American Folk Art Gallery, New York
Mrs. Olive Beaupre Miller
Thence by descent to current owner

Lot Essay

Plucrea "Polly" Fairman (1754-1813) married Gideon Botsford (1749-1826) in Newtown, Connecticut in 1771. They had thirteen children. In a related mourning picture (fig. 1) in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection at Colonial Williamsburg, Polly's grave is accompanied by those of two of her children who died in infancy: Polly A. Botsford (August 1792-March 1793) and Gideon Bennett Botsford (August 1774-December 1774).

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