J. Edgar Abernathy's North Carolina Framed Penwork, Blissful Be Thy Life

Steel pen on paper, 1892, with Spencerian calligraphy of deer and birds in a landscape below a crest, inscribed "Presented to Miss Anna Phillips / by J. E. Abernathy, March 1892 / May Sweet Pleasures twin their laurels around thee till the angels carry thy spirit to the happy beyond / Executed with a common steel pen by J. Edgar Abernathy, Rutherford College, NC, March 1892," framed below glass.

Sheet sight 21 1/2 x 27 in.; Frame dimensions 27 x 32 1/4 in.

Toning, waviness, and tears, and staining to the sheet, loss to upper edge; not examined outside the frame; frame with wear.