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Emily Appleton
Sarah Goodridge (born Templeton, MA 1788-died Boston, MA 1853)
ca. 1844
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (3.8 x 3.2 cm) oval
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
This miniature of Emily Appleton (1821-1844) in inscribed on the back of the locket with her name and death date, and includes a lock of the young woman’s hair. These clues suggest that this is a memorial miniature.
