Details
Contributor Forten, Mary, 1815-1842, artist.
Forten, Margaretta, 1806-1875, artist.
Title "Forget me not!" [graphic] / M.F., Philadelphia, 1834.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1833
Date [1834]
Physical Description 1 drawing: gouache; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Description Album page containing a drawing of a stem of blue forget-me-nots above a poem about remembrance. Shows the stem with mutiple flowers and leaves.
Notes Title from manuscript verse.
Date from item.
Probably by Margaretta or Mary Forten, civil rights activists and members of the multiracial Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society. The women were the daughters of Philadelphia African American entrepreneur and abolitionist James Forten and abolitionist Charlotte Vandine Forten
Contains lines of verse: Forget me not”!—how sweet the token,/ When early hours have faded long,/ And hopes as well as hearts are broken,/ To know they still exist in song!/ Thus, may the exile fondly dream of/ Many a dear and transie[n]t ray/ And watchful memory catch a gleam/ Each colouring of a by-gone day. What tho the wave with ceaseless motion/ Protracts the union of o’er lot:—/ Our Hope’s the rock, which stems Time’s ocean,/ Our Love’s the flower, “Forget Me Not.” Excerpt adapted from poem by William G. Simms Jr., “The ‘Forget Me Not,’” in Early Lays (Charleston, South Carolina: A. E. Miller, 1827).
Manuscript of "Philadelphia" outlined with dots.
Manuscript numbers for year "1834" formed with dots.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject Flowers.
Memory.
Poetry.
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Gouaches -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.14]
Accession number P.9764.14