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FINE MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL.

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FINE MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL.

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Auction Date:2011 Nov 25 @ 14:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:2690 Stratford Road, Delaware, Ohio, 43015, United States
FINE MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL.
Sally F. Cheever, Danvers, Essex County, 1820-1825, watercolor on paper. Skillfully painted, brush stokes simulating needlework stitches, inscribed "Sacred to the Memory of" and filled in at a later date for her father, Thomas Cheever. Gilt frame, 22"h. 25 1/2"w. Ex Denny Tracy.

Sally F. Cheever, born in 1806, the first of ten children of Thomas Cheever (1776-1854) and Sally Pindar (1784-1854) lifelong residents of Danvers. On June 18, 1828, she married Dr. Ebenezer Hunt (1799-1874), also of Danvers. Their only child, Catharine Elizabeth was born a year later. Sally died in June of 1831. Dr. Hunt married her sister, Elizabeth, in 1833.

Another Cheever family memorial for two of Sally's infant sisters is pictured in Garrett's The Arts of Independence, p. 65, and is attributed to Sally. The present memorial was exhibited in The Fine Art of Folk Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1990, and is illustrated in the catalog. Copies of each publication accompany the lot.

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