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1833
GUSN-62502
Portrait of Frances Hall Ames Barrett, leaning on the scrolled arm of a sofa with gold upholstery. Sitter is wearing a white off-the-shoulder dress with ruched bodice, short puffed sleeves, and pleated skirt. A small gold brooch is pinned to the center of the bodice. Sitter is wearing a pair of matched gold bracelets and is holding a sheaf of sheet music in her left hand. Sitter's brown hair curled into ringlets and piled atop her head. White pedestal with blue and gold urn in background at left, red draperies with gold fringe in background at right. Plain gilt frame.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Painting
"H.C. Pratt/ painted / this / 1833" (Painted)
"T.BROWN" (stamped)
Barrett, Frances Hall (Ames), 1809-1887
Original To Barrett House (New Ipswich, N.H.),
B1958.723
Pratt, Henry Cheever (American painter, 1803-1880) (Painter)
USA
44 x 36 1/2 x 3 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Caroline Barr Wade
1948.723
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