# Mrs. James Reid Lambdin (Mary O'Hara Cochran)

- By: James Reid Lambdin (born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14229)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/56c1c062c9d4100664100a848c42a2a3.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.