Auction: January 28, 2025

Lot #197: 1814 Watercolor on Silk Momento Mori

Having a depiction of a female mourner at a tomb beneath a weeping willow, amid a landscape having a church and houses within an oval panel having applied ribbon outline and watercolor drapery swag above and below, applied paper elements having ink inscriptions to tomb (of Hugh Hughes) and below oval, the later reading "To Mrs. Laura Hughes, a Memento of Friendship and Sympathy from B. M. Bostwick / D.1814", behind reverse painted and gilt glass in a gold-tone lacquered wood frame