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1879
GUSN-2619
Rectangular, vertical format, full-length portrait, in pencil and crayon, of Lyman S. Hapgood as a child, showing him in a left profile view, sitting in an old-fashioned high chair posed with the sea and a sailboat in teh background. The child wears a broad-brimmed straw hat with wide blue ribbon, a blue striped dress and high-buttoned black boots.
portraits
drawings (visual works)
crayons (drawing material)
paper (fiber product)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
Picture
Portrait
Unidentified Paper
Pencil
crayon
Portrait
1. in black crayon at the left of image: K. V. Orcott (?) [see cataloguing worksheet; N.F. Little has recorded this on the cat. card as K. V. Orcott] 2. Scriptt writing in pencil on backing reverse at upper center: Lyman S. Hapgood [underlined] J. L. White Drawn by a travelling Artist -- July 1879 Gloucester -- Pleasant St In the old house where Lyman was born (A. W. H.) [see cataloguing worksheet; the initials A.W.H. are those of his mother, Annie Winter Hapgood per N.F. Little] 3. On green sticker with black print on central backing below #1: [see cataloguing worksheet; image of a sheild with following inside: J.C. White, Artist's Supplies Picture Frames &c. 10 Bromfield St., Boston. 4. Blue fountain pen writing on jelly label, at lower left on new backing reverse: Bought at/ Hapgood Auction/ Pleasant St./ Gloucester/ July 1943 5. In pencil ay center, bottom of sheet reverse: S. F. Ilsson [see cataloguing worksheet]
Used At Lyman S. Hapgood House,
Lyman S. Hapgood House
Possibly J. F. Olsson & Co. (Maker)
Possibly Orcott, K. V. (Maker)
Cambridge, MA, USA
8.5 x 6.5 x 0.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.838
Massachusetts (United States)
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