Currently not on view
Portrait of Jerome Keith Spence,
ca. 1810 – 1820
American
x1958-59
Information
Title
Portrait of Jerome Keith Spence
Dates
ca. 1810 – 1820
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
sight: 12.6 × 10.2 cm (4 15/16 × 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Duff Balken, Class of 1897
Object Number
x1958-59
Inscription
in brown ink, top of margin: A pretty good likeness of Jerome [?] Keith Spence
in ink, on verso, text of letter fragment [?]: Boston 24th June | Hon. William Eustes | sir from the present | alarming situation situation [sic] of the | Country & from a conviction.
in white chalk, on former strainer: S. Palmer [repeated] Cas [?] Blair. Esq. | Peter
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- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 40
- "Another generation's folk art: Edward Duff Balken and his collection of American provincial paintings and drawings: appendix I: an inventory of works from the home of Edward Duff Balken", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 29-30., p. 30
- Colleen Cowles Heslip and Charlotte Emans Moore, "Catalogue of the collection," in "A window into collecting American folk art: the Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 31-162., p. 140-142; cat. no. 54
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 212, cat. no. 53; p. 213 (illus.); p. 340, checklist no. 861
