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Creator Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist.
Title "I love a flower!" [graphic] / S.M. Douglass.
Date [ca. 1833]
Physical Description 1 drawing: watercolor and gouache; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Description Album page containing a drawing of a wild pink rose above eight lines of allegorical verse about the beauty of flowers. Shows the rose with a stem, five green leaves surrounding the petals, and two buds.
Notes Title from manuscript verse.
Date inferred from complementary entries in album.
Contains eight lines of verse: I love a flower! it ever brings/ A warmth of feeling to my heart,/ Unlike those gay and gilded things/ That flatter coldly, coldly part./ But flowers! – Oh they are eloquent/ They speak when lips would still be dumb/ When by the hand of friendship sent,/ Her price interpreters they come.
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Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist.
Subject Roses.
Leaves.
Poetry.
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Genre Gouaches -- 1830-1840.
Watercolors -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.9]
Accession number P.9764.9

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