America's Earliest known Dated Pyrography Portrait Panel , Pennsylvania Portrait of a man and woman dressed in traditional clothes appropriate for the period and attending a flowering tree, 12.25"x9", dated lower left 1819,
America's earliest known dated
pyrography panel
Provenance: ex
Carol and Richard Smyth collection, originally found in Pennsylvania, and
featured in their
book THE BURNING PASSION, p.7
Description in the Smyth book
follows
:
BEFORE: (refers to ealier time preceeding the invention
of advanced platinum points and tools) THIS PIECE OF PYROGRAPHY DATES FROM 1819
THE STYLE IS VERY FORMAL AND STILTED. THE SHORT TIME AVAILABLE WHILE THE IRON
NEEDLE WAS HOT ALLOWED ONLY A FEW BASIC POINT A TO B APPROACH TO
OUTLINING.
