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Fire screen, 2017.02.501, 7" x 10 5/8", unidentified artist, ca. 1817. Image courtesy of Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association/Memorial Hall Museum.

About this Image

Reflecting Orra White's interest in botany, an unidentified pupil painted this fire screen with a delicate design of roses and grapes and, similar to Charlotte Catlin's fire screen, applied shiny gold paper stars to it.