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Watercolor painting of a picnic in rolling fields surrounded by trees. Small figures of men, women, children, horses, and dogs are collaged into the scene. A few dozen people, mostly white, crowd around two long, white picnic tables. The few African American people depicted congregate with themselves.

Anti-Slavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

c. 1845

Susan Torrey Merritt American, 1826-1879

United States

Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with pen and black ink, graphite, and collage of painted and metallic papers, on tan wove paper

Prints and Drawings

Women artists