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Portrait of Abigail Phillips Quincy (1803-1893)

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1880-1890

GUSN

GUSN-56091

Description

Photograph of a woman in a lace cap, dark dress, and white shawl. Sitter is seated in a Victorian chair with carved back at a writing desk in the Dining Room at Quincy House.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
photographs
paper (fiber product)
Photograph
Photograph

Inscription

"Property of A.B. Gould. Photograph of Abby Phillips Quincy. Enlarged by Moses(?) Partridge from a -- negative taken by an amateur (a druggist named Hadcock) in Roxbury which negative now belongs to A.B. Gould" (handwritten)

Associated Person

Quincy, Abigail Phillips, 1803-1893

Associated Building

Original to Josiah Quincy House (Quincy, Mass.),

Maker

Hadcock, Henry L., 1855-1931 (Photographer)
Foster Brothers (Framer)

Location of Origin

Roxbury, MA, USA; Boston, MA, USA

Dimensions

21 3/4 x 24 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Edmund Quincy

Accession Number

1988.81

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

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