Charity

Date1805-1815

MediumWatercolor with crystalline decoration

DimensionsFramed: 15 3/4 × 13 15/16 × 1 1/8 in. (40 × 35.4 × 2.9 cm) Sight: 12 × 11 1/4 in. (30.5 × 28.6 cm)

Object numberN0093.1961

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextAmerican schoolgirl artists often depicted the theme of Charity offering a bun to a beggar child, an image which was derived from an English print. This unknown artist placed the subject in an interior which includes a painted floor or floorcloth, decorative wallpaper and draperies, and classically inspired furniture.

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