Portrait #752

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Branch, Josephine Imogene Woods
  • Artist:Dodge, John Wood
  • Date Created:1841 Feb 23
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:3.75 x 3. 25
  • Image Dimensions:2.75 x 2.25
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:12/6/2005
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Minature of a young woman with dark straight hair dressed in a blue drape. Her hair falls to the middle of her ears and her eyes are large and blue. The background is a stunning pink and blue sky with a few golden tree tops visible on the right side.
  • Notes:The subject is the oldest daughter of Robert and Sarah Brown West Woods and was born March 10, 1819 and died October 25, 1852. She married John Richard Branch, son of John Branch, Governor of North Carolina, November 18, 1841.