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The Prodigal Son Wasted His Substance

c. 1815

Mary Ann Willson

Artist, American, active 1810/1825

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and black ink and watercolor
Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Dimensions

sight size: 38.1 x 31.3 cm (15 x 12 5/16 in.)
framed: 48.9 x 42.2 cm (19 1/4 x 16 5/8 in.)
Accession

1966.13.21

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1998

Mary Ann Willson: Artist Maid, American Folk Art Museum, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1966

101 Primitive Watercolors and Pastels, from the Collection of Edgar William Garbisch and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966: 37.

Inscriptions

across bottom: the prodigal Son wasted his Substance with riotous living luke 15--13

Wikidata ID

Q64607431

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