Minneapolis Institute of Art

Family register

William Murray

Date

February 6, 1813

Medium

Ink, pencil and pigments on paper

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

New York artist William Murray made numerous family registers, particularly for British-American families. Here Murry documents the family of Daniel Contryman, born in 1785. The style is an interesting hybrid of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) fraktur or broken writing style and traditional New England family registers. A fabulous example of American folk art, the register remained in the family until it was gifted to the MIA in 2008. United States, Americas

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