Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Portrait of Mary Catlin
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
ca. 1827
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.6 x 6.2 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Morse
- 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
George Catlin’s younger sister Mary was born in 1802 and married Asa Hartshorn, from Connecticut, in 1820.