Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Drawing |
Object ID # |
2000.4.4 |
Title |
Watercolor painting of plummed bird with ancient walled town |
Place of Origin |
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
Year Range from |
1820 |
Year Range to |
1830 |
Material |
Paper, watercolor |
Dimensions |
H-10 W-7.75 inches |
Description |
Folk-style watercolor painting, circa 1820-30, depicting a plummed bird perched in front of an ancient, mid-eastern, walled town. Signed "Jacob Young" on the reverse. By an unidentified hand. |
Provenance |
This piece was a part of a set of seven watercolor drawings found rolled together in the mid 1970s in the attic of the farmhouse of the late Abraham H. & Beatrice Detweiler Myers (corner of Oak Dr. & Moyer Rd.), Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County. Beatrice was the daughter of Jacob & Lizzie Swartley Detweiler, and granddaughter of James D. & Mary A. Allebach Swartley, who each owned this farm earlier. Although the precise origins of this set are unknown, they may have come the Allebach-Swartley family. |
Source |
Gift of Abraham H. Myers |
Collection |
Fraktur |