Painting
- Title:
- Abel Goodrich Farwell
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2008.016.19
- Date:
- 1840-1850
- Description:
- Miniature portrait, possibly of Abel Goodrich Farwell (1813-1863). Watercolor on ivory, oval, in gold frame with glass. Engine-turned engraving on back of frame, with blank horizontal ellipse near bottom that bears no name. Vertical gold-rimmed oval on upper back of frame, with woven hair under glass. Gold bail on top edge of frame.
- Material:
- Ivory
Metal
Gold
Glass
Hair - Dimensions:
- H-2.6 W-2 inches Weight-0.3 oz
- Provenance:
- Said by Frances Dudley Shepard to possibly be Asa W. Farwell, husband of Susan Bartlett Farwell, but her husband was actually Abel Goodrich Farwell (1813-1863). Abel Goodrich Farwell and Susan Bartlett Farwell (1822-1902) of Boston, MA, were the parents of Clara Walker Farwell (1846-1848). See 1970.003.01, portrait of Abel attributed to Henry Cheever Pratt.
Donated by Klaudia S. Shepard (1932-2020), wife of Henry B. Shepard Jr. (1927-2002). Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Klaudia S. Shepard
- People:
- Shepard, Henry B., Jr. (1927-2002), Shepard, Klaudia S. (1932-2020), Farwell, Abel Goodrich (1813-1863)
- Subjects:
- Miniatures (Paintings), Portrait miniatures
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