Portrait #385

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Huntington, Sally Ann
  • Artist:Tisdale, Elkanah
  • Date Created:1830 October
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2 9/16 x 2 3/16
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Rectangular slightly right waist-length of a woman whose dark hair is parted in the center and tightly curled in rolls on the sides of her head. Her dress is blac, sqaure-cut at the neck with a white inset collar. She wears a rectangular pendant that falls to the meeting place of the dark fabric and the light. Image is inset into a green velvet case.
  • History:Exhibited Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000
  • Notes:Illus. in Huntsville catalog/American Art Review March 1996.