Collection Highlights
William Pitt, the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
Date:
ca. 1770
Object Number:
1864.5
Medium:
Marble
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Mrs. Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1805-1870)
Object Number:
1970.63
Date:
1828
Medium:
Oil on composition board
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 3/4 x 24 in. ( 78.1 x 61 cm )
Gallery Label:
Eleanor Boyd, daughter of Samuel Boyd, a New York lawyer, and Eliza (Pierson) Boyd of Newark, New Jersey, married Theodore Dwight, Jr., on April 24, 1827.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 30.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 243.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Isabel Stuart Ferris
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
