$2,280
Framed Family Record, Canada, c. 1850, watercolor and ink on paper, depicting a record of the vital statistics of a John Sherwood (b. 1816), his first wife, Charlotte Scribner (b. 1819), and his second wife, Alada McCleod, and their eleven children, decorated with hand-painted landscape with figures of a man and a woman grieving beside a monument, inscribed with the names of three deceased family members, flanked by a cherub, a church, a house, and flowers, (toning, foxing, light stains), 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 in., in a later molded giltwood frame. Note: John W. Sherwood was born in Hammondvale, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. He married his first wife Charlotte Scribner, April 11, 1839. Charlotte died circa 1844, and John married Alada McCleod, also b. 1819.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-28
