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    		• Jordan, Samuel,
     
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    		• Primitive -- Mourning
     
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    		• Architecture -- Monument
     
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    		• Landscape -- Tree
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Architecture exterior -- Religious
     
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    		• Animal -- Horse
     
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    		• Homage -- Eaton,
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    Eaton Family Memorial, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Jordan, Samuel, 1803/04-after 1831, painter.
    Title: 
    Eaton Family Memorial, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1831.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    21 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (55.6 x 39.4 cm)
    Inscription: 
    (On base of memorial:) S.J. Sc 1831 (On memorial:) to the Memory of/Ednah Eaton-/who died December 22nd/1797, A Et. 3 years- Samuel Eaton/[w]ho Died October 6th 1803,/3 years-/[M]ehitable Eaton/[w]ho died April 12th 1819-/12 Years-/Lucy Eaton-/who died August 14th/1830-/AEt 40 years-/Sleep on, my Children, sleep (On reverse, no longer visible:) Painted AD 1831 in Plaistow, N, Hampshire/by Samuel Jordan. (Below, in pseudo-Greek:) Samuel Jordan of Boston/painted AD 1831/Aged 27/in God's Name/Adieu. (Lower left corner, in pseudo-Greek:) Christ our Trust signed
    Description: 
    Mourning picture with a female figure standing at a monument near a willow tree. A saddled horse is in lower right corner; a church is in the distance.
    Subject: 
    Primitive -- Mourning
    Architecture -- Monument -- Gravestone
    Landscape -- Tree -- Willow Tree
    Figure female -- Full length
    Architecture exterior -- Religious -- Church
    Animal -- Horse
    Homage -- Eaton,
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1955.11.9 (1427)
    Provenance: 
    Gift of Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, 1955.
    References: 
    Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992.
    National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990.
    "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992, pg. 237.
    "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970, pg. 75.
    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 08600509
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