Lot 82: Rare Gift Drawings

Scrapbook pages with four watercolor “Gifts”: the first page depicts a Shaker red Brick Dwelling with a yellow star above and green grass below, titled “A Gift of Love and Blessings to Sister Mary Wicks”; the second page depicts a Sacred Tree separated into four parts, each with a verse beginning “Upon the green grass,…”; the third page depicts a Sacred Tree with central red heart and branches with 12 creeds listed such as “Faith, Hope, Honesty, Continence…”, (this page shows minor tears and a small piece missing at top right); the fourth page depicts branches with blue berries flanked by red tulips, on top of an upside down triangle filled with a poem “I hear the voice of Mother whisper worship God this day…”, all pages measure 12″ h, 14″ w. [The scrapbook is a leather style cover embossed and gilded, tied with a twilled cord, c. 1880-1900. It was found in a group of Shaker objects from an estate. These Shaker pieces were acquired in the Pittsfield area in the early 1900’s.]

Estimate: $4,000-6,000