The Abraham Pixler Family
Decorative family records were commonly kept in American households during the nineteenth century. This one portrays members of Abraham Pixler’s family, with the parents, Abraham and Eve, at the top of the sheet and their three children, Absalom, David, and Levi, beneath them. The composition is conventional, as it follows the basic layout of countless family-record needlework pictures and pages of illuminated calligraphy, but also innovative in its use of portraits in place of the more commonly used names and symbols.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Abraham Pixler Family
- Date: ca. 1815
- Culture: American
- Medium: Watercolor, pen and iron gall ink, and gouache on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966
- Object Number: 66.242.3
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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