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Lot 20: * RUTH HENSHAW BASCOM

Est: $20,000 USD - $30,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 16, 2004

Item Overview

Description

painted 1832; in a period frame. Charles is the brother of Helen Mann Rugg (Lot 19); Bascom's journal records his image as having been taken on several dates in 1832. The back of the portrait is inscribed Charles in pencil along the top of his head and the bottom of his shoulder, most likely by Mrs. Bascom herself.

PORTRAIT OF CHARLES MANN, OF FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS

Dimensions

framed 18 by 13 1/2 in. 45.58 by 34.3 cm.

Medium

pastel on paper, cut to profile with appliquèd gold foil necklace

Literature

Supplement to A Loving Likeness: American Folk Portraits of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997, p. 2

Provenance

Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts

Frank J. Miele, New York

Notes

This particular profile image is composed of two pieces of paper held together with a thread. The blue background is a period replacement.

Auction Details

Property From the Collection of Raymond and Susan Egan

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Sotheby's
January 16, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US