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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Davis, Joseph H.,     Portrait group -- Family     Portrait male -- Caverly, Azariah     Portrait female -- Caverly, Azariah, Mrs. (Eliza Tasker)     Portrait male -- Caverly, George A.     Portrait male -- Caverly, George A.     Portrait female -- Caverly, Sarah Jane     Portrait female -- Caverly, Sarah Jane     Architecture interior -- Domestic     Object -- Furniture     Object -- Art Object     Object -- Written Matter     Object -- Tool     Primitive     Painting

The Azariah Caverly Family, (painting). Artist:  Davis, Joseph H., 1811-1865, painter. (attributed to) Title:  The Azariah Caverly Family, (painting). Other Titles:  Caverly Family, (painting). Dates:  July 1836. Medium:  Watercolor with glazed highlights, pencil and ink on wove paper. Dimensions:  10 15/16 x 14 15/16 in. (27.7 x 37.9 cm) Inscription:  (In margin below portrait, in ink:) Azariah Caverly. Aged 44. December 28th 1836. George A. Caverly. Aged 3 years./January 28th 1836/Sarah Jane. Caverly. Aged 7 months/July 15th 1836/Eliza Caverly. Aged 24. June 4th 1836 (At top of newspaper, in ink:) DOVER GAZETTE./and Strafford Advertiser unsigned Description:  Family portrait with Azariah Caverly (1792-1843) seated at a table at left holding a newspaper; his second wife, Eliza Tasker (1812-1870), seated at a table at right with her young daughter, Sarah Jane (1835-1865), in her lap; and their child, George A. (1833-1916), standing at center reaching up to his father's table. A detailed drawing and writing implements are on Azariah's table; a vase of flowers and book are on Eliza's table. George holds a carpenter's square. A painting draped in garland hangs at center. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family Portrait male -- Caverly, Azariah -- Full length Portrait female -- Caverly, Azariah, Mrs. (Eliza Tasker) -- Full length Portrait male -- Caverly, George A. -- Child Portrait male -- Caverly, George A. -- Full length Portrait female -- Caverly, Sarah Jane -- Child Portrait female -- Caverly, Sarah Jane -- Full length Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Object -- Furniture -- Table Object -- Art Object -- Painting Object -- Written Matter -- Book Object -- Tool -- Measuring Device Primitive Object Type:  Painting Owner:  New York State Historical Association, Lake Road, Route 80, Cooperstown, New York 13326 Accession Number: N-61.61 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Lipman, Howard & Jean, Wilton, Connecticut Clark, Stephen C., Sr., Cooperstown, New York References:  New York State Historical Association, 1974, 1988. D'Ambrosio, Paul S. and Charlotte M. Evans, "Folk art's many faces: portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, N.Y.: The Association, 1987, no. 30. "The Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art," Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 62. Illustration:  D'Ambrosio, Paul S. and Charlotte M. Evans, "Folk art's many faces: portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, N.Y.: The Association, 1987, pg. 64. Exh.cat. "Three New England watercolor painters," Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1974. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 34070416   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 34070416 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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