Lot 16: REMICK, CHRISTIAN

The arms of the McGlaughlin family of Eastham, Massachusetts, 1772. Watercolor, pen and ink on paper with gilding (14 1/4 x 10 in.; 357 x 254 mm), signed and dated at top "Drawn by C. Remick 1772"; original carved wood frame

PROVENANCE

Rockwell Gardiner, Stamford, Connecticut, 1982-- Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little (Sotheby's New York, 29 January 1994, lot 167; note on paper jelly label by Nina Fletcher Little: "By Christian Remick b. Eastham 1736 signed:Drawn by C. Remick 1772")

NOTE

Christian Remick was born in Eastham, Massachusetts in 1736. he advertised in the 1769 Massachusetts Gazette that he specialized in "sea pieces, perspective views, plans of harbors...." A master mariner Remick was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War on the Brigantine Tyrassiade of the Massachusetts Navy.