A Sacred Sheet Sent from Holy Mother Wisdom by Her Angel of Many Signs, 1843

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Medium

pen and blue ink

Dimensions

sight size: 43.2 x 34 cm (17 x 13 3/8 in.)

framed: 53.3 x 44.1 cm (21 x 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1971.83.26

Artists / Makers

Mary Wicks (artist) American, active 1843

Semantha Fairbanks (artist) American, active c. 1843

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center verso on attached sheet: A sacred Sheet sent from Holy Mother Wisdom, by her / ... (3 lines of script) / Instrs. Semantha Fairbanks and / Mary Wicks

Exhibition History

2001: Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles; The Drawing Center, New York, 2001, no. 21.

Bibliography

1970: Hancock Shaker Village. Gift of Inspiration: Religious Art of the Shakers. Hancock, MA: 1970, 26.