Details
Contributor Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852 engraver.
Title [Miss Rogers] [graphic] / St. Memin, No. 27 Pine St., N. York.
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1900]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver on cardboard mount ; mount 7 x 15 cm (2.75 x 6 in.); image 7 x 8 cm (2.5 x 3 in.)
Description Photographic reproduction of the 1797 portrait engraving made by St. Memin possibly of Sarah Elizabeth Rogers. Bust-length, left profile portrait of Rogers wearing her curly hair up with a headband and attired in a dress with a ruffled collar. Portrait identified by descendants as Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of New York merchant Moses Rogers and Sarah Woolsey Rogers. Sarah Elizabeth Rogers would have been twenty years old, and the sitter appears older. Inscription also reads, Mrs. Rodgers, which is crossed out. [See Elaine Mile. Saint-Memin and the neoclassical profile portrait. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p.382-383.]
Is referenced by Elaine Mile. Saint-Mémin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America (Washington D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, 1994), entry #713.
Notes Title from manuscript note written under image: Identified. Mrs.[crossed out] Rodgers. Miss Rogers.
Date inferred from photographic medium.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Rogers, Sarah Elizabeth, 1777-1866 -- Portraits.
Women -- Portraits.
Women.
Genre Portrait photographs -- 1890-1900.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Reproductions -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| misc. photo - portraits - miscellaneous [P.2010.6.38]
Accession number P.2010.6.38