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Portrait of Penelope Winslow, half-length facing right; subject has brown hair and is wearing a blue dress. Spandrels in lower corners only. Paper is pasted directly to wooden frame covered by a piece of coarse linen tacked to back.
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on verso, in pencil on linen lower left ""Penelope Pelham 1745""; in pen on paper pasted to linen: ""Mary & John Winslow/niece and nephew of/ Joseph Sayward and (chil)dren/ of Mary (S.) Sayward. Brought/ from Louisburg 1763 by/ Joseph Sayward - /Died at Halifax (?) 1779 (crossed out); on another paper: ""Genl. John Winslow / Penelope Pelham Winslow sister of John Winslow. both died in exile at Halifax/N.S. m 1779""
Winslow, Penelope Pelham
Pelham, Penelope
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Possibly Badger, Joseph, 1708-1765 (Maker)
26 3/4 x 22 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.246
Probably
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