Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2618BLocation: BostonDate / Time: October 28, 2012 10:00AM
Description:
Pious and Patriotic Calligraphic Art Exercise, 19th century, schoolboy/girl ink on paper picture depicting a large bald eagle and American shield, with a waving banner in its beak inscribed "Our Father who art in" with elaborately inscribed "HEAVEN," below, and grasping a "HOLY BIBLE" in one of its talons, with floral and foliate borders, (minor toning, light stains, minor ink bleeding; (not examined out of frame),sight size 15 3/4 x 19 5/8 in., in a period molded giltwood frame.
Estimate $300-500