Painting

Title:

Abigail Brooks Dodge

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1955.227.04

Creator:

Belknap, Zedekiah (1781-1858)Artist

Date:

1825/5

Description:

Portrait of Abigail Brooks Dodge (1806-1872) by Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858), May 1825. Oil on panel. Bust-length view of seated woman facing slightly right with eyes turned toward front. Sitter has brown-black hair with curls on temples and a high chignon; brown eyes. Wearing a high-waisted, plaid dress in pink, green and white; a sheer white palerine with floral borders, trimmed with fringe; a tortoise-shell comb and a large pink, red and green bow in hair. Wrapped in a white fringed shawl with a blue floral stripe. Seated in a painted chair, apparently of "thumb-back" Windsor type, a stile and part of the crest rail of which are visible at left. Dark gray-green background with dark brown area at lower right. Chair, orange-brown, with dark brown (or black) decoration composed of undulating and interlaced vines. Reverse of panel painted gray with large-scale inscription painted in black, reading: "Portrait of / Abigail Brooks Dodge. / Dau. of Isaac and Abigail Brooks. / born in Amherst N.H. / Sept.25th, 1806. / Drawn by Z. Belknap. / Weathersfield Vt. / May 1825." Pencil inscription also on reverse: "Abigail Brooks Dodge.

Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

H-27 W-22.5 inches

Provenance:

Portraits may have been given by Isaac Brooks Dodge (b. 1829), grandson of Isaac Brooks (1757-1841), and son of Abigail Brooks Dodge (1806-1872). He was a member of the NHHS. He died at Amherst, Aug. 24, 1905. There is no mention of portraits in the inventory of his estate.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Dodge, Abigail (1806-1872), Belknap, Zedekiah (1781-1858), Dodge, Isaac Brooks (1828-1905)

Subjects:

Portraits, Portrait paintings, Clothing & dress