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Mrs. James Reid Lambdin (Mary O'Hara Cochran)
James Reid Lambdin (born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889)
ca. 1850
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 4 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (11.2 x 9.0 cm) rectangle
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- 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
Mary O’Hara Cochran (born 1810) and James Reid Lambdin were married in 1828, and between 1830 and 1850 had ten children. During the nineteenth century, young children were especially at risk from cholera, smallpox, measles, and diseases linked to poor sanitation. Families often had many children, to increase the chance of some of them surviving to adolescence.
