Portrait of Mary Floyd Tallmadge
Object ID:
1917-04-2
Category:
Images of People
Medium:
oil on canvas
Creator:
Ralph Earl (1751-1801)
Date:
1790
Held at:
Litchfield Historical Society
Associated Place:
Litchfield, CT
Size:
82" length x 58 1/2" width
Description:
Oil on canvas portrait of Mary Floyd Tallmadge with her son, Henry Floyd Tallmadge and her daughter, Maria Jones Tallmadge. Mrs. Tallmadge sits on a straight back chair, her daughter sits on her lap, her son at her feet. Mrs. Tallmadge has her hair puffed, powedered and trimmmed with ostrich feathers, pearls and roses. Wearing a blue silk dress, around her shoulders a wide double lace collar mid arm length sleeves and wide lace cuffs. In her right hand she holds a painted fan, around her wrist is a black band with pearl clapse. To her left a green drapery with gold tassle trim, to her right a opne window with white church steeple.
Associated People
- Mary Floyd Tallmadge
Image of - Maria Tallmadge Cushman
Image of - Henry Floyd Tallmadge
Image of
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