August Americana
Description:
Attributed to Rezpah E. Eye (Portland, Maine, Early 19th Century)
Landscape with Shepherdess
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 in., in a modern mahogany shadow box frame.
Condition: Minor toning, not examined out of frame.
Provenance: The Grant Collection, New York.
Note: Rezpah E. Eye married Charles Dunlap in Portland, Maine, in 1833. This piece came down in the family of Deborah Stanwood, a schoolmate of Rezpah. Deborah was born February 12, 1798.
Estimate $300-500
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