Rectangular format of the head and shoulders of a woman in a dark brown oval; she wears a rust rose dress with a muslin cap; the frame is ebonized with an inner gold molding.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Coated Canvas
Oil on Canvas
Portrait
Loaned to Worcester Historical Museum for exhibition "Tell Tale Treasures: Sutton 1704-2004," April-October 2004.
In black paint on the image is written: ""PRUD.ce WATERS, AEt 24."" On a typewritten jelly label on the lower left of the frame reverse is written: ""Mrs. Samuel Waters, 1755-1837/Prudence Winchester Waters,/of Grafton and Sutton, Mass./Painted by Winthrop Chandler/ between March and November/1779."" Scrawled in chalk and pencil on the left frame reverse, three times is: ""Borodom"" The frame measurements are scrawled across the top frame reverse in pencil.
Waters, Prudence
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790 (Maker)
Woodstock, CT, USA
28.75 x 25.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1067.2
Connecticut (United States)
Massachusetts (United States)
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