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Anti-Slavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

Watercolor painting of a picnic in rolling fields surrounded by trees. Small figures of men, women, children, horses, and dogs are collaged into the scene. A few dozen people, mostly white, crowd around two long, white picnic tables. The few African American people depicted congregate with themselves.
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  • Watercolor painting of a picnic in rolling fields surrounded by trees. Small figures of men, women, children, horses, and dogs are collaged into the scene. A few dozen people, mostly white, crowd around two long, white picnic tables. The few African American people depicted congregate with themselves.

Date:

c. 1845

Artist:

Susan Torrey Merritt
American, 1826-1879

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Susan Torrey Merritt

Title

Anti-Slavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1840–1850

Medium

Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with pen and black ink, graphite, and collage of painted and metallic papers, on tan wove paper

Dimensions

66 × 92 cm (26 × 36 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Elizabeth R. Vaughan

Reference Number

1950.1846

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