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Creator Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882 artist.
Title "I love a flower!" [graphic] / S.M. Douglass.
Date ca. 1833
Physical Description 1 drawing: watercolor and gouache; overall 24 x 19 cm. (9.5 x 7.25 in.)
Description Album page containing a drawing of a wild pink rose and eight lines of allegorical verse about the beauty of flowers.
Notes Title from manuscript verse.
Biographical / historical note Douglass, an artist and prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, was best known as an educator and anti-slavery activist.
Subject Roses.
Poetry.
African American women artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Watercolors -- 1830-1840.
Gouaches -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.9]
Accession number P.9764.9

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