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THBNew York Folk Art Family Record, Byington Family
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LiveMar 10, 2018 - Mar 11, 2018
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- Lot Description
American (New York), first quarter 19th century. A family record on paper with hand-colored illustrations of the twelve stages of human life with accompanying text, including Biblical verse, surrounding a pillared archway enclosing the names and significant dates concerning the Byington family, with decorative details of a drawn curtain in the upper corners and a spray of flowers above the record chart. Framed, likely original; 18 x 13.75 in. (sight), 19.75 x 15.75 in. (frame).
Along the bottom of the record is written The Twelve Different Stages Of / Human Life / From the Cradle to the Grave. Beginning in the lower left and moving up and around the archway are twelve captioned illustrations of each stage. First is a mother and two young children in an interior, with the caption: Man is born to trouble as the / sparks fly upward (Job 5:7). The next image shows an adolescent boy and girl dancing, with the text A day added to this life is a / day taken from it. This is followed by an image of a young man in romantic pursuit of a young woman, labeled along the bottom: This is the time when folly reigns and top, Beauty is a dangerous snare. In the next image, the man and woman are shown walking arm in arm with text along the top Here Love is steadily sincere, followed by a scene of the couple with a small child, This offspring needs our care.
At the top of the arch, the man and woman, now in middle age, are seated together under the verse O may I feel another's woe / And hide the fault I see. / That mercy I to others show / That mercy show to me (Stanza 10 of Alexander Pope's The Universal Prayer of 1738).
The first four images on the right side show the couple growing increasingly older together, accompanied by the verses As down Life's rugged path we tread / Let's look and see the past / The sacred records here behold / This points us to our last / We are now ready to be offered up / and our departure is at hand (2 Timothy 4:6). The illustration in the lower right shows the couple lying in bed with both an angel and devil approahcing, over the text Man goeth to his long home / The mourners go about the street. (Ecclesiastes 12:5).
Along the bottom of the archway is a larger illustration of the mourning procession carrying the coffins to the cemetery, along with the words Here the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at Rest. (Job 3:17). Contained within the archway is the text So teach us to number our Days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom (Psalm 90:12) and a four-columned chart, labeled Names, Births, Marriages, Deaths. Above the labels are listed the birth dates and marriage date of Joel Byington (1771-1819) and his wife Deborah Rockwell (1774-1857), along with Joel's death date. Below are the dates associated with their five children. Deborah died in Rochester, New York and is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery along with her daughters Mary and Lydia.
Condition
Some staining to paper and splits around border.
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