Rebecca & Nathaniel Greensmith [graphic] / Barbara Broughel. [between 1992 and 1998]

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Rebecca & Nathaniel Greensmith [graphic] / Barbara Broughel. [between 1992 and 1998]

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A drawing of several branches of thorns with two worms or serpents. Drawing is a symbolic portrait of Rebecca and Nathaniel Greensmith of Hartford, Connecticut; the couple were accused of witchcraft ("familiarity with the devil") and executed in 1663.

1 drawing on wove watercolor paper : graphite, b&w ; sheet 57 x 57 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Broughel, Barbara

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This drawing is part of Barbara Broughel's Requiem series in which the artist used brooms and "other modest household objects of early American design" to portray people convicted of witchcraft and executed in seventeenth-century America. These symbolic portraits were based on contemporary court transcripts and represent some aspect of the individuals and/or their accusation. The Requiem series consists of preliminary sketches, 42 objects, and finished graphite drawings of each of the objects. T...

Greensmith, Nathaniel, d. 1623.

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Greensmith, Rebecca, d. 1623.

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