Label, on verso: Title: John Sherburne; Date: November 17, 1810. Painting found at Wilde College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Included in an Exhibition of American Primitive Paintngs in Europe. Label reads: Karl Hnat/Spediteur, Wien

Inscribed, on verso: Painted November 17, 1810

dealer, Isabel Carleton Wilde (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). Downtown Gallery(New York, New York, USA). Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler (Garbisch, New York, USA)

1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, p. 176 (ill.).

American, John Sherburne, ca. 1840, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 81.833.