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A watercolor of a multi-story home and multiple cabins surrounded by a zig-zag split rail fence with people going about daily tasks in the yard.
A watercolor of a multi-story home and multiple cabins surrounded by a zig-zag split rail fence with people going about daily tasks in the yard.

Mr. Polley's Plantation, Harrie's birth-place.

Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge (1824-1913)

Object Details

  • Date

    ca. 1856

  • Medium

    Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on paper

  • Object Format

    Album

  • Dimensions

    Image: 4 11/16 x 7 3/8 in.
    Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.l., handwritten, in ink: Drawn from recol[lectio]n )

    l.c., handwritten, in ink: Mr. Polley's Plantation \ Harrie's birth-place.

    l.r., handwritten, in ink: about 18 miles [Note: "miles" is inserted above] from Sequin

    l.r. in graphite, between title and other l.r. inscription, in hand other than artist's: (1855)

    Verso:

    l.l., handwritten in ink: Born Sept. 30th 1855

    [upside graphite drawing of a structure]

    u.l., faintly hand-lettered upside down in graphite: PENDLETON

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Natalie K. Shastid

  • Accession Number

    1984.3.19

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Additional details

Location: Off view
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