A PAIR OF WATERCOLOR AND INK DRAWINGS

SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, POSSIBLY BUCKS COUNTY, 1820-1850

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A PAIR OF WATERCOLOR AND INK DRAWINGS
Southeastern Pennsylvania, possibly Bucks County, 1820-1850
Each centering a red bird with yellow wings and variously colored tail feathers perched on a scrolling branch issuing green feathers and yellow, red and green upright and pendant flowers, the whole enclosed in a rectangular border of red or yellow vertical and green horizontal margins, with yellow or red corner blocks
5 5/8in. high, 2¾in. wide (2)

拍品专文

This pair of birds may relate to a drawing illustrated in FLP 162. The "A"-line shape of the tapering stem on which the birds perch relates it to a group of Bucks County fraktur drawings; see FLP 575-577, see also 608. FLP 640 shows a later example of the same design with perched bird; FLP 710 shows a similarly conceived bird as 640, but with flowers relating more to those shown on the two drawings illustrated here. The last figure is incised Hilltown Township, Bucks County, and is dated 1847.