# Emily Appleton

- By: Sarah Goodridge (born Templeton, MA 1788-died Boston, MA 1853)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=9337)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/90f1135c16a6c9aa98e50868735dff9a.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.