A Fruit-Bearing Tree; A Cedar of Paradise
1842 and 1846
Artist, American, active 1840s

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with colored wash over graphite
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 65.1 x 43.2 cm (25 5/8 x 17 in.)
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Accession
1971.83.33
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Shaker Village, Hancock, MA; Richard L. Mills, New Haven, CT; Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1972.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 63.
Bibliography
1969
Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews. Visions of the Heavenly Sphere. Charlottesville, VA: 1969, p. 50, 124.
1970
Hancock Shaker Village. The Gift of Inspiration: Religious Art of the Shakers. Hancock, MA: 1970, no. 32.
Inscriptions
lower center verso: Instrument. Phebe A. Smith / Water Vliet
Wikidata ID
Q64619418