{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3372"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P1.2001.018"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1830"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2005     8    5"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2005.8.5"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Leavitt intricately rendered the stencil-decorated New England interior of his father\u2019s tavern to commemorate a visit by the noted American Revolutionary War general the marquis de Lafayette (1757\u20131834), here an imposing figure in a blue waistcoat. Sally Morse, a cousin of the painter, sews by the fireplace; her husband is not pictured but constructed the work\u2019s original wood frame."},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"John Bigelow Taylor"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Watercolor, ink, pencil on paper, in original maple frame"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Chichester"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3308/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"3308"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Interior of John Leavitt's Tavern"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Chichester"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["portrait","watercolor","painting","Painted to commemorate the 1824\u20131825 American tour of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757\u20131834), this watercolor endures today as a remarkable document of a stencil-decorated New England interior. For many years it was believed to depict the interior of Moses Morse\u2019s house in Loudon, New Hampshire. Morse was a local joiner and made the painting\u2019s frame, with diagonal stringing that echoes the stringing along the edges of the desk portrayed in the watercolor. It now seems more likely that this is not the Morse home, however, but a view of the tavern belonging to the artist\u2019s father, John Leavitt. In this vivid scene, the viewer is able to look through three connecting rooms, each with a distinctive character created by the use of stencil and freehand painting. The placement of three figures\u2014Lafayette looming large in the right foreground, Mrs. Morse seated by the fire, and an unidentified figure in the middle room\u2014provides scale and perspective. The most elaborate space is the highly patterned front room; every surface has received some type of painted decoration. The delicate, foliate border design and swag-and-tassel frieze above are related to the actual work of an unidentified itinerant stenciler who traveled through the coastal towns of New England.","Painted to commemorate the 1824\u20131825 American tour of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757\u20131834), this watercolor endures today as a remarkable document of a stencil-decorated New England interior. For many years it was believed to depict the interior of Moses Morse\u2019s house in Loudon, New Hampshire. The confusion can perhaps be laid to the fact that the watercolor descended in the Morse family and includes a portrait of Morse\u2019s wife, Sally, sewing by the fireplace. Morse was a local joiner and made the painting\u2019s frame, with diagonal stringing that echoes the stringing along the edges of the desk portrayed in the watercolor. Recent research strongly suggests that this is not the Morse home, however, but a view of the tavern belonging to the artist\u2019s father, John Leavitt. Mrs. Morse was the artist\u2019s cousin, perhaps explaining her presence in the watercolor.In this vivid scene, the viewer is able to look through three connecting rooms, each with a distinctive character created by the use of stencil and freehand painting. The placement of three figures\u2014Lafayette looming large in the right foreground, Mrs. Morse seated by the fire, and an unidentified figure in the middle room\u2014provides scale and perspective. The most elaborate space is the highly patterned front room; every surface has received some type of painted decoration, from the checkerboard floor to the wall divided into bordered panels. According to Nina Fletcher Little, the delicate, foliate border design and swag-and-tassel frieze above are related to the work of an unidentified itinerant stenciler who traveled through the coastal towns of New England; the bird-and-leafy-branch motif over the fireplace has not been found elsewhere.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Interior of John Leavitt's Tavern,\" in American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 385.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Works on Paper","eMuseum - Collection Highlights"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Chichester"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154533"},"geographyState":{"value":"New Hampshire"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":"FIRST LABEL: paper label in glassine, sepia ink, cursive: Layfayette came to America in 1824--/He dined at loudon N.H. with a/schoolmaster Gleason--once the secretary/of (George Washington--President)/This picture was painted at that time/by [blank] the frame made by/Moses Morse--father of Julia Perkins Morse/{walker/Supposed to represent the interior of/rooms in farm house of Moses Morse--Sally Emery Morse/(wife)/and Lafayette/Painted by Joseph Warren Leavitt/of Chichester--cousin of Sally Emery Morse [note first spelling of Layfayette with Y, second without]; SECOND LABEL: paper label with b"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"641","content":"Joseph Warren Leavitt"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["portrait","watercolor","painting","Painted to commemorate the 1824\u20131825 American tour of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757\u20131834), this watercolor endures today as a remarkable document of a stencil-decorated New England interior. For many years it was believed to depict the interior of Moses Morse\u2019s house in Loudon, New Hampshire. Morse was a local joiner and made the painting\u2019s frame, with diagonal stringing that echoes the stringing along the edges of the desk portrayed in the watercolor. It now seems more likely that this is not the Morse home, however, but a view of the tavern belonging to the artist\u2019s father, John Leavitt. In this vivid scene, the viewer is able to look through three connecting rooms, each with a distinctive character created by the use of stencil and freehand painting. The placement of three figures\u2014Lafayette looming large in the right foreground, Mrs. Morse seated by the fire, and an unidentified figure in the middle room\u2014provides scale and perspective. The most elaborate space is the highly patterned front room; every surface has received some type of painted decoration. The delicate, foliate border design and swag-and-tassel frieze above are related to the actual work of an unidentified itinerant stenciler who traveled through the coastal towns of New England.","Painted to commemorate the 1824\u20131825 American tour of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757\u20131834), this watercolor endures today as a remarkable document of a stencil-decorated New England interior. For many years it was believed to depict the interior of Moses Morse\u2019s house in Loudon, New Hampshire. The confusion can perhaps be laid to the fact that the watercolor descended in the Morse family and includes a portrait of Morse\u2019s wife, Sally, sewing by the fireplace. Morse was a local joiner and made the painting\u2019s frame, with diagonal stringing that echoes the stringing along the edges of the desk portrayed in the watercolor. Recent research strongly suggests that this is not the Morse home, however, but a view of the tavern belonging to the artist\u2019s father, John Leavitt. Mrs. Morse was the artist\u2019s cousin, perhaps explaining her presence in the watercolor.In this vivid scene, the viewer is able to look through three connecting rooms, each with a distinctive character created by the use of stencil and freehand painting. The placement of three figures\u2014Lafayette looming large in the right foreground, Mrs. Morse seated by the fire, and an unidentified figure in the middle room\u2014provides scale and perspective. The most elaborate space is the highly patterned front room; every surface has received some type of painted decoration, from the checkerboard floor to the wall divided into bordered panels. According to Nina Fletcher Little, the delicate, foliate border design and swag-and-tassel frieze above are related to the work of an unidentified itinerant stenciler who traveled through the coastal towns of New England; the bird-and-leafy-branch motif over the fireplace has not been found elsewhere.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Interior of John Leavitt's Tavern,\" in American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 385.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1820"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1825"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, July 2, 2016 - Monday, September 19, 2016","exhibitionEndISODate":"2016-09-19","exhibitionID":"159","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2016-07-02","exhibitionBeginDate":"2016","exhibitionTitle":"AMERICAN MADE","exhibitionEndDate":"2016"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Sunday, September 2, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-09-02","exhibitionID":"149","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-01-17","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"JUBILATION an act of rejoicing | RUMINATION an act of contemplation","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - Sunday, June 2, 2002","exhibitionEndISODate":"2002-06-02","exhibitionID":"207","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2001-12-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2001","exhibitionTitle":"American Radiance","exhibitionEndDate":"2002"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, April 12, 2024 - Sunday, May 25, 2025","exhibitionEndISODate":"2025-05-25","exhibitionID":"257","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2024-04-12","exhibitionBeginDate":"2024","exhibitionTitle":"Somewhere to Roost","exhibitionEndDate":"2025"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"P1.2001.018"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 7 x 9 \"Frame: 8 5/8 x 10 1/2 x 1/2 \""}}]}