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Artist:
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William Murray
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Title:
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Family register
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Date:
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February 6, 1813
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Medium:
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Ink, pencil and pigments on paper
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Dimensions:
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15 11/16 x 12 13/16 in. (39.85 x 32.54 cm) (sight)
17 5/16 x 14 3/8 x 1 in. (43.97 x 36.51 x 2.54 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Robert MacGregor Shaw and Virginia Conger Buffington Shaw
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Location:
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Gallery 332
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New York artist William Murray made numerous family registers, particularly for British-American families. Here Murry documents the family of Daniel Contryman, born in 1785. The style is an interesting hybrid of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) fraktur or "broken" writing style and traditional New England family registers. A fabulous example of American folk art, the register remained in the family until it was gifted to the MIA in 2008.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Murray, William
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Life Dates:
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American, 1756 - 1828
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date at bottom of sheet, in black, red and yellow: [Drawn BY/ WILLIAM MURRAY FEBRUARY 6th 1813]
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Classification:
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Drawings
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Physical Description:
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large heart at center with "Daniel Countryman" printed in black and red; roundel with portrait of a young man wearing a black hat at top center; ten small hearts to L and R of large heart; chased flowers, swags and decorative arcs at bottom: "Drawn BY/ WILLIAM MURRAY February 6th 1813"; handwritten text in different hands throughout, front and back
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , New York,
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Accession #:
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2008.43
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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