Drawing
- Title:
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2000.020
- Creator:
- McLauthlin, Emma H. (1856-1930)
Artist - Date:
- 1888
- Description:
- Portrait of Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), by Emma H. McLauthlin (1856-1930), 1888. Charcoal crayon on paper. Bust-length portrait of a woman, facing slightly right. Sitter has hair parted in the middle, worn up with curls on sides. Wearing a dress with high collar and neck ruffle; ruching around buttons on bodice; two decorative textile rosettes with hanging decorations on left and right on bodice. Signed, lower left: "EHM '88." Text adhered to backboard (copy in accession folder). Gilded frame with high-relief foliate scrolls, large leaves on four corners and vine-like interior; glazed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-23 W-18 inches
- Provenance:
- Note with gift explains, "the portrait was displayed for years in the Carpenter Foundation in Providence, R.I., which housed a huge collection of the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.... It was purchased in the early [19]90s by my mother (Sally Rice), and her business partner (Gail Weatherbe), both life-long Christian Science practitioners."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sally W. Rice and Gail M. Weatherbe
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