The
Wife. By Washington Irving
Reason, Patrick Henry
1816-1898
artist
Irving, Washington
1783-1859
associated name
still image
Graphic
Calligraphy -- 1830-1840
nyu
N.Y. New York
[January 1839]
1839
monographic
eng
1 drawing: calligraphy in ink; sheet 24 x 19 cm. (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Album page containing an ornately calligraphed transcription of an excerpt from the Irving sketch in "The Sketch Book of Geoffery Crayon, Gent" about the wife as a helpmate to her husband. The sketch first published in 1816 was widely reprinted in periodicals during the 1830s, including in "The Ladies Garland" in 1838. Transcription contains multiple styles of handwriting and is enclosed within a border comrpised of swirls.
New York, Jany. 1839, P.H.R.
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Transcription of calligraphic text: AS THE VINE WHICH HAS/ long twined its graceful/foliage about the oak and/ been lifted by it in sunshine will when/ THE HARDY PLANT IS RIFTED/ By the thunderbolt cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs so/BEAUTIFULLY so it is ORDERED BY/ PROVIDENCE/ THAT WOMAN who is the mere DEPENDENT/ And ornament of man in his happier hours should be his stay and solace when/ SMITTEN WITH SUDDEN/ calamity WINDING herself INTO the rugged/ recesses of his nature tenderly/ supporting the drooping head/ and binding up/ THE BROKEN HEART
Reason, born in New York and one of the few known 19th-century Black engravers and lithographers, was also an anti-slavery and voting rights activist. He spent much of his career, which began when he was a teen in the 1830s in New York, before relocating to Cleveland in the late 1860s.
Forms part of: Amy Matilda Cassey Album.
Poetry
Spouses
P.9764.25
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Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.25]
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