Portrait #1243

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Dickey, Susan Eleanor Poston
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:1892
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:31 x 28
  • Image Dimensions:11 x 19
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  • Materials/Media:Charcoal on paper
  • Date Documented:20 April 2008
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Subject is facing nearly left profile and looking in that direction. Her light brown hair is pulled back behind her visible left ear, and possibly arranged in a loose bun at her neck. Her long, leg-of mutton-sleeved dress is ruffled white lace at the shoulders with an elaborate embroided high neckline and echoing embroidery down what is visible of the bodice.
  • History:Portrait of owner's maternal grandmother, probably made in Houston, TX.
  • Notes: Subject was born in 1872, married in 1892 in Houston, TX, and died September 21, 1934 in Nashville, TN. She is buired in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Nashville, TN.