August Americana
Description:
Watercolor and Ink Penmanship Exercise, David Augur, America, 1855, spreadwing eagle flanked by two architectural scenes above five lines of old English alphabet, verse, and roman numerals, in a paint-decorated frame, ht. 9 3/4, wd. 7 3/4 in. (sight).
Provenance: Collection of Kennedy Galleries, New York; Sotheby's, the Wiltshire Collection, December 8, 1984, Lot 69.
Literature: The Kennedy Quarterly, January 1972, Vol. XI, No. 3, p. 183; catalog for the exhibition Calligraphy: Why Not Learn to Write, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, January 29-March 23, 1975.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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