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1803
GUSN-2779
Rectangular format, waist length portrait of Jacob Goold. Depicts an old man with night cap style hat and house coat. Holding a book, index finger on left hand points down. Facing left side of painting. Oil on panel.
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"JACOB GOOLD NOW/ 84 Years/Benjamin Greenleaf. Painter 1803" (handwritten)
Goold, Jacob
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Greenleaf, Benjamin, 1769-1821 (Maker)
MA, USA
29 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1229
Massachusetts (United States)
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