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Phebe A. Smith

A Fruit-Bearing Tree; A Cedar of Paradise, 1842 and 1846

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Medium

pen and black ink with colored wash over graphite

Dimensions

overall: 65.1 x 43.2 cm (25 5/8 x 17 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1971.83.33

Artists / Makers

Phebe A. Smith (artist) American, active 1840s

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Inscription

lower center verso: Instrument. Phebe A. Smith / Water Vliet

Provenance

Shaker Village, Hancock, MA; Richard L. Mills, New Haven, CT; Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1972.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.

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.

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