Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Mrs. Charles A. Lamb (1829-1893)
Object Number:
1893.2
Date:
1878
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
Framed: 26 3/4 in. × 36 in. × 4 in. (67.9 × 91.4 × 10.2 cm)
Unframed: 15 1/2 × 24 3/4 in. (39.4 × 62.9 cm)
Sight
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "C. A. Fassett 1878"
Gallery Label:
Martha Joanna Nash, the daughter of Arvin and Lucinda (Vinton) Nash, was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts. She married Charles A. Lamb in 1852 and lived in Chicago was the next fourteen years. She moved to New York in 1866 and embarked on a literary career, writing many short stories for magazines as well as a novel, "Spicy," which was published in 1873. However, her 2-volume "History of the City of New York" (1877-81) was her first work to win wide acclaim.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Charles A. Lamb
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
