Charlotte's Visit to the Vicar Artist: Eunice Griswold Pinney (American, 1770–1849)

1810

American Paintings and Sculpture

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Watercolor on paper

Dimensions

13 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (34.3 × 24.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch, LL.B. 1958, and in honor of Kathleen Luhrs and Robin Jaffee Frank, Ph.D. 1995

Accession Number

2023.95.83

Geography

Made in Simsbury, Connecticut, United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Drawings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's Garbisch Collection, April 27, 1978, lot 484; sold to Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch and Alvin Deutsch (1932--2021), New York, April 27, 1978 (on loan as a promised gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1999–2022); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

watercolors

Subject

Women artists

Inscriptions

Inscribed at bottom: Charlottes [sic] Visit to the Vicar / The good old man was sitting upon his bench at the sight of / Charlotte he forgot his old age and his oaken stick and / ventured to walk towards her. Shen ran to him and made him / sit down again. Eunice Pinneys [Dora???] 1810

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