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Creator Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist.
Title "A token of love from me, to thee" [graphic] / S.M. Douglass.
Date [ca. 1833]
Physical Description 1 drawing: watercolor and gouache; sheet 24 x 19 cm (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Description Album page containing a drawing of a black butterfly on a twig with pink flowers. Shows the butterfly with a black head, thorax, and abdomen and black wings with specks of green and red. The twig also contains several green leaves that fold up, fold down, and/or droop. The stem and branches of the twig are outlined with pink lines.
Notes Title from manuscript note.
Date inferred from complementary entries in album.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist.
Subject Butterflies.
Flowers.
Leaves.
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Genre Gouaches -- 1830-1840.
Watercolors -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.2]
Accession number P.9764.2

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