Details
Creator Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist.
Title Fuchsia [graphic] / S.M.D., 7.15.46.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [July 15, 1846]
Physical Description 1 drawing: watercolor; sheet 25 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.5 in.)
Description Album page containing a drawing of a stem of fuchsia with four flowers copied after a figure in a plate from James Andrews' Lessons in Flower Painting. A Series...(London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street; John Menzies, Edinburgh; Thomas Wardle, Philadelphia [1836]), pl. 11. (LCP Am 1836 And, 13878.Q). The fuchsia is depicted with the blue petals, red sepals, and pink stamens of the flowers facing down. Image is also composed with the bud of a flower at the end of the stem that has multiple green leaves.
Notes Title and date from item.
LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p.45.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note Douglass, was an artist, educator, community activist, and prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community. Mary Anne Dickerson was her pupil.
Subject Flowers.
Fucshia.
Leaves.
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Albums -- 1840-1850.
Watercolors -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Mary Anne Dickerson album [13860.Q.75]
Accession number 13860.Q.75