Details
Contributor Hinton, Ada Howell, artist.
Title A mark of friendship's pleasing power... [graphic] / A.H.H.
Date ca. 1840
Physical Description 1 drawing: gouache; overall 28 x 23 cm. (11 x 9 in.)
Description Album page with embossed border and containing a drawing depicting a bunch of flowers above a four-line sentimental poem about friendship and rememberance. Flowers include a rose. Other flowers are depicted in the colors of orange, red, and violet. Image also includes a stem and leaves.
Notes Title from manuscript verse.
Probably by civil rights activist and educator Ada Howell Hinton who founded a school in 1849. Hinton was daughter of Philadelphia African American elite community member, barber, perfumer, and abolitionist Frederick Augustus Hinton.
Contains four lines of verse: A mark of friendship pleasing power,/In this small trifle see/And sometimes in a lonely hour,/View it and think of me.
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Description revised 2022.
Subject Flowers.
Poetry.
Friendship
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Genre Gouaches -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.73]
Accession number 13859.Q.73