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Adams Family Record: Births and Marriage of Cornelius and Rebecca Adams

13 ¾” x 11 ¾” with frame.

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Adams Family Record: Births and Marriage of Cornelius and Rebecca Adams

Probably Massachusetts, ca. 1804.

Inscribed on verso: This Record is drawn for 10 x 12 glass

I have been long enough about it, but everything comes in the right time excepting Old maids’ wedding days and seasonable rains. For it is very dry at this time. June 20th. [signed] T Prince.


Watercolor and ink on paper

13 ¾” x 11 ¾” with frame.

Evenly toned, minor staining, upper left corner missing, lower right corner restored. Original frame and backboards.

An iconographical masterpiece depicting an American eagle with a banner and shield reading, “We are one,” symbolizing the birth of our new nation at the beginning of the new Federation.

$22,000