Painting
- Title:
- Clarissa Lamson Sullivan
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1907.007.08
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1845
- Description:
- Miniature portrait of Clarissa Lamson Sullivan (1815-1870), unknown artist, c. 1845. Watercolor on ivory. Half-length oval portrait of a woman, facing forward. Sitter has long brown hair with center part and long ringlets; brown eyes. She is wearing a v-neck black dress with black fringe on collar and sleeves. Hatched orange background with black shading lower. Unsigned. Accompanying paper: "A picture of the wife of Hon. Geo. Sullivan being a painting on ivory from a daguerreotype." Gilded metal case with oval window on reverse for hair, foliate and rosette bezel, convex glazing
- Material:
- Skeletal
Ivory
Metal
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-2.75 W-2.25 inches
- Provenance:
- The donor, Dr. John Sullivan (1840-1908), was the fourth generation in direct descent from the Irish immigrant John Sullivan.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of John Sullivan
- Subjects:
- Portrait miniatures
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