"Long long be thy heart with your memory fill'd..."
Forten, Margaretta
1806-1875
artist
still image
Graphic
Gouaches -- 1830-1840
Watercolors -- 1830-1840
pau
PA. Philadelphia
[ca. 1834]
1834
monographic
eng
1 drawing: watercolor and goache; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
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.
Margaretta.
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.
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.
Forms part of: Amy Matilda Cassey Album.
Flowers
Memory
Poetry
Vases
P.9764.16
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.16]
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dcrmg
ppl
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