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Rectangular formated portrait of a woman at waist length, facing right, with red drapes in the background. Light brown hair piled uptop her head with a blue dress with a round collar and lace banding (lace is in black circles with raised dots of white paint). She's also wearing a belt with a buckle, a chain attached to scissors and sewing in her lap. She holds a threaded needle in her right hand. Simple black frame. Oil on canvas. [see photo neg#47500-A]
portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Oil on Canvas
Painted
Portrait
Woman
Sewing
Painting
1. On the lower left side on the back of the stretcher, on a typed white red bordered jelly label that reads: Allethenia Fisk/B.Wilton; NH, June 30/1792./D.Sept.4, 1838. Sister/of Achsah (Fisk) Farrar./Attrib. to Asahel/Powers of Spfld. VT. 2. Next to #1 on the back in a blue ball point pen on a jelly label with a red border, is written: Loaned by/Mrs. B.K. Little . 3. Measurements written in pencil on each side of the back of the picture on the frame, except the bottom. They are: 35.5"", 35.5"", 25.5"". 4. Across from the bottom in charcoal is written: #5904X
Farrar, Allethenia Fisk, 1792-1838
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Attributed to Powers, Asahel L. (American painter, 1813-1843) (Artist)
USA
34 1/2 x 25 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1199
Vermont (United States)
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