House with Three Chimneys
Signed (l.r.): Mary Knight, Otisfield Maine.
Ca. 1825-1830.
Watercolor on paper.
9″ x 7 3/4″ with frame.
Great condition, minor toning. In a period gilt frame.
Provenance: Mayer Collection, New York, Marjorie Schorsch, 1983.
A rare signed watercolor, to date the only known signed Mary Knight, depicting a house with fourteen windows flanked by two green stylized trees above a “folky” flower pot. This example being on of the thirty-five found in a house in Maine.