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Morrisania, 1855
William Rickarby Miller (1818 - 1893)
Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper laid down on board
15⅝ x 19¾ inches
Signed, inscribed, and dated lower left: W. R. Miller. / “The Dead Tree.” Morrisania. N.Y. / July. 1855.
15⅝ x 19¾ inches
Signed, inscribed, and dated lower left: W. R. Miller. / “The Dead Tree.” Morrisania. N.Y. / July. 1855.
Provenance
Estate of Arthur F. Goat, South Pomfret, Vermont
Sale, Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts, August 9, 2014, lot 408
Private collection, Worcester, Massachusetts
Note
Morrisania, now a neighborhood in the Bronx, was once an estate of 2000 acres along the Harlem River owned since the 1670s by the aristocratic Morris family, one of whom was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and another a penman for the United States Constitution.