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"Long long be thy heart with your memory fill'd..." [graphic] / Margaretta.
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Creator
Forten, Margaretta, 1806-1875, artist.
Title
"Long long be thy heart with your memory fill'd..." [graphic] / Margaretta.
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1834
Date
[ca. 1834]
Physical Description
1 drawing: watercolor and goache; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Description
Album page containing a drawing of a white vase of flowers on a square-shaped base and above a poem about memory and remembrance. Flowers depicted are of various kinds and include roses. They are long-stemmed, have leaves, and are in colors of pink, red, yellow, white and blue.
Notes
Title from manuscript verse.
Date inferred from complementary entries in album.
Contains four lines of verse: Long, long be my heart with your memory fill’d!—/Like the vase in which roses have once been distill’d—/ You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will;/ But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note
Forten, was a civil rights activist, founding member of the multiracial Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society, and educator. She was the daughter of Philadelphia African American entrepreneur and abolitionist James Forten and abolitionist Charlotte Vandine Forten.
Subject
Flowers.
Memory.
Poetry.
Vases.
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Gouaches -- 1830-1840.
Watercolors -- 1830-1840.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.16]
Accession number
P.9764.16
In Collections
Amy Matilda Cassey Album
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1801-1865
Album Collection
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