Description
The scene shows an empty crib, the mother looking upward toward the soul of an infant ascending into heaven. Thorns surround the earthly part of the composition, morning glories the heavenly part.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
2/05/1987
Treatment
mounted; re-housed
Exhibitions
American Drawings from the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987.
Provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, date and mode of acquisition unknown; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.