Currently not on view
A Daughter of Elkanah Watson,
19th century
Ezra Ames, American, 1768–1836
y1970-2
Information
Title
A Daughter of Elkanah Watson
Dates
19th century
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.2 x 60.5 cm (30 x 23 13/16 in.)
frame: 98 x 83 x 8.2 cm (38 9/16 x 32 11/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Wilmer Hoffman, Class of 1913, Fund
Object Number
y1970-2
Inscription
On painted monument (?), to the left of sitter, in background: “E.W.L. / obt. 3.Jany /1817 / [aesc] 25.6”
Culture
Type
Purchased from upstate New York private collection by Frederick Johnston, Kingston, NY, late 1930s; sold by him to Vose Galleries, Boston, MA; purchased from gallery in 1965 by R.W. Worthington, Champaign, IL; sold by Worthington to PUAM
- "Acquisitions 1970", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 30, no. 1 (1971): p. 22-30.
- Frances Follin Jones, "A daughter of Elkanah Watson", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 30, no. 1 (1971): p. 7-12., p. 8 (illus.); p. 9 (illus.)
- Mourning becomes America: mourning art in the new nation, (New Jersey: The Main Street Press, 1976). , cat. no. 171; fig. no. 49
- Martha V. Pike, A time to mourn: expressions of grief in nineteenth century America, (Brooklyn, NY: Museums at Stony Brook, 1980)., cat. no. 122; p. 163 (illus.)
- Diana Williams Combs, Early gravestone art in Georgia and South Carolina, (London; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986)., pl. 5.1; p. 180
- Betty Ring, Girlhood embroidery: American samplers & pictorial needlework, 1650-1850, (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1993)., Vol. 2: p. 326; fig. 345
