Painting
- Title:
- Abigail Gilman Perry
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2008.016.01
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Portrait of Abigail Gilman Perry (1789-1860), unknown artist, c. 1850. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, facing viewer. Sitter has center-parted brown hair, brown eyes, and wrinkles on face. She is wearing a cap with lace on lower half, broad white collar, black dress, black ribbon crossed at neck and held with rectangular gold and amethyst pin. Dark green background. Unsigned. Modern gilded molded frame with patina.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27.5 W-22 inches
- Provenance:
- Donated by Klaudia S. Shepard, wife of Henry Shepard, descendant of Dr. William and Abigail Gilman Perry of Exeter, NH. Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Klaudia S. Shepard
- Subjects:
- Perry, Abigail Gilman
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