"Spray of Roses"

c. 1830

Maker

Mary Gaw Janvier Robeson (1811-1834)

Measurements

Frame, 5-3/4 in x 7-1/4 in x 3/4 in; picture, 4-1/2in x 6-1/8 in

Materials

Watercolor on embossed paper

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation

Accession Number

1975.28

Inscription

"DOBBS" is embossed into the center of bottom immediately below the embossed border.

Condition Notes

The picture has darkened from exposure to light.

Provenance

Ex coll. Margaret Janvier Hort.

Comments

The small, precisely executed picture shows two large roses against green leaves and five-petaled blue flowers that spray outward.  An embossed border of circles within bands forms a rectangle around the composition.  The name Dobbs is embossed below the rectangular border.  Dobbs stood for a London-based company started by Henry Dobbs that made high-quality embossed papers throughout the 19th century.  The picture is in a late-19th-century black from with incised deocration on its face.

For a related picture, see accession no. 1975.27.