Album page containing a pencil drawing of an arrangement of assorted flowers of different varieties drawn when the album was in a horizontal position. Arrangment also includes leaves and flower buds., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from item., Probably by Lydia A. Bustill., Lydia A. Bustill, was an anti-slavery activist and cousin of educator, artist, and anti-slavery activist Sarah Mapps Douglass., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date
[October, 1841]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.52]
Depicts a stem of honeysuckle., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of artist from manuscript note on verso., Gift of William Woys Weaver, 1995., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Douglass, an artist and prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite, was best known as an educator and community activist.
Creator
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist
Date
[ca. 1845]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors-Douglass [P.9493]