Collection Highlights
Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving
Date:
1878
Object Number:
LIB.PS2069.C4
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Luce Center
Julia Parsons Redmond (c. 1882-1959) in Eighteenth-Century Costume; Self-Portrait
Object Number:
1946.52
Date:
1904
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and black crayon on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 x 19 1/2 in. ( 43.2 x 49.5 cm )
Marks:
inscribed: lower, pencil: "One...early copy done by this..., 1904"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right outside iimage in black crayon: "One & only copy done by this process / 1904"
Description:
Self-portrait
Gallery Label:
Julia Parsons, the wife of New York banker Henry S. Redmond, was an amateur artist who painted mainly miniatures. In this self-portrait she appears in the 18th-century costume gown she wore to Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's ball in 1904.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Redmond
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
