Unto You That Fear My Name Shall the Sun of Righteousness Arise with Healing in His Wings

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Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Unto You That Fear My Name Shall the Sun of Righteousness Arise with Healing in His Wings
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on paper
6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm.), image; 6¾ x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 cm.), sheet
Executed by 1882.

Provenance

Alexander Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

"Easter Cards," Brooklyn Daily Times, April 1, 1882, p. 3 (as Sun of Righteousness).
(Probably) Carlotta, "Easter in New York," Newark Daily Advertiser, April 11, 1882, p. 1.
G.L. Carr, "New Light on Frederic Church's 'Late' Work," The Magazine Antiques, vol. CLXXIII, January 2008, no. 1, pp. 159.
G.L. Carr, "American New Jerusalems, ca. 1690-1890," New Jerusalems: Hierotopy and Iconography of Sacred Spaces, Moscow, Russia, 2009, pp. 856-57, n. 17.

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Lot Essay

The present work and a second watercolor with the title And I Beheld the New Jerusalem Coming Down from God Out of Heaven, were published as Easter cards in 1882 by Prang and Co., Boston, Massachusetts. The title of the present work is a portion of a verse, Malachi 4:2, in the Old Testament of the Bible.

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