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1846
GUSN-256377
Frontal waist length portrait of woman seated in Lincoln type rocker. She wears a white lace cap tied under the chin and black dress with pleated bodice and white lace collar with cameo pin at center of collar. Black shawl. Subject holds brass rimmed spectacles of rounded rectangular shape folded in her right hand. Gray background. Painted on back "Betsy Thacher / Aged 60 years / Painted 1846." Orange-brown stained wood frame.
oil paint (paint)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
pine (wood)
Painting
Betsy Thacher / Aged 60 years / Painted 1846 (Painted)
Thacher, Mary
Thacher, Elizabeth M.
Original To Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),
350.1981
Unknown
New England
37 1/2 x 32 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Estate of Guido Perera
1999.555
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