Portrait #350

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:McAwly, Mrs. Temora (?)
  • Artist:Marra, John
  • Date Created:1804
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2 3/8" diameter
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:2/22/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Frame is original gold plated on copper with fully glassed back enclosing a strand of brown hair over silk. It has a very unusual pasteboard case with embossed and applied decoration. On the case is written in contemporary ink "Mrs McAwly / Temora" Young woman with light brown curls pasted to her forhead and piled atop her head. She is wearing a simple white v-neck collarless dress, pinned at the nadir of the v-line. Her eyes are large and blue.
  • History:Painted in New York City. Exhibited Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000 Illus. Huntsville catalog.