02659ckm a2200517 a 4500 000141094 20230712141129.0 kd co 000802s1833 paunnn kneng d (CPomAG)AFR-460 1 3 10 ppl PPL dcrmg Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist. 48762 No marvel woman should love flowers... [graphic] / Selected by S.M. Douglass. [ca. 1833] 1 drawing: watercolor and gouache; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.) Title from manuscript verse. Date inferred from complementary entries in album. Contains six lines of verse: No marvel woman should love flowers, they bear/ So much of fanciful similitude/ To her own history; like herself repaying/ With such sweet interest all the cherishing/ That calls their beauty or their sweetness forth;/ And like her too—dying beneath neglect. Verse from a poem by English writer Letitia Elizabeth Landon that was frequently published, including in the Ladies’ Miscellany (Salem, Mass., April 7, 1830). Album page containing a drawing of coupled red and blue flowers above six lines of allegorical verse about unappreciated beauty. Shows the red camellia with fluffy stamens below three, five-petal blue flowers, possibly forget-me-nots. The flowers are also depicted with buds, leaves, and stems. The stem of the red flower contains thorns. Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist. Forms part of: Amy Matilda Cassey Album. RVCDC Description revised 2022. Access points revised 2022. Beauty. lctgm Flowers. lctgm 72240 Poetry. lctgm 78167 Thorns. lctgm Gouaches 1830-1840. gmgpc Watercolors 1830-1840. gmgpc African American women artists Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Women. 82663 SP3 African American History SP10 Philadelphia artists. Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1833. Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.24] P.9764.24 2000/08/02 ep 2001/09/12 ja Pr Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.24] Pr P.9764.24 LCPD Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.24] (CPomAG)00146041 134117 134117 000141094 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000141094 BATCH-UPD 00 20051210 2230 000141094 20060120 1808 000141094 20060201 1534 000141094 MASTER 40 20070410 1044 000141094 20071018 1952 000141094 SARAH 40 20100420 0904 000141094 ERIKA 40 20230222 0919 000141094 ERIKA 40 20220331 1346 000141094 ERIKA 40 20220331 1046 000141094 ERIKA 40 20220331 1338 000141094 ERIKA 40 20220331 1048 ppl PA. Philadelphia. 1833. Imprint