Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Mary Pearsall Field (ca. 1875-1942)
Object Number:
1905.80
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. ( 8.6 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
signed: "Behenna"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the daughter of Moses Augustus Field and Frances Field and granddaughter of Moses and Mary Pearsall (Bradhurst) Field. Her father was a wholesale druggist and a prominent New York businessman. She was born in New York and was the great-granddaughter of Samuel Osgood, first postmaster general of the United States. She was married to Henry Wilmerding Payne (d. 1926) in 1901.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
