| Title |
Bolton, Abby, 1827-1849. |
| Alternate title |
Abby Bolton. |
| Publisher |
[New York? : s.n.] |
| Date |
[1850?] |
| Physical description |
1 print : engraving ; 11.3 x 7.7 cm |
| Description |
Three-quarter-length portrait of the young woman. |
| Notes |
In The lighted valley, or, The closing scenes in the life of a beloved sister (New York, 1850), frontispiece. |
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The young woman was the daughter of the Rev. Robert Bolton (1788-1857), an Episcopalian clergyman who was born Savannah, Georgia;
in 1807, he traveled to England, where he married Anne Jay Bolton (1793-1859); the couple and their children left England
in 1836 and settled in New York; they opened the Bolton Priory School in Pelham Manor, New York, in 1838.
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Another portrait appears in Bolton, R. The Lighted valley, or, The closing scenes of the life of Abby Bolton (London, 1851),
frontispiece ("Eng'd by W. Holl, from a painting by her brother [i.e., William Jay Bolton]").
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| Genre |
Engravings -- 1850-1859. |
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Portrait prints -- 1850-1859. |
| Subject |
Bolton, Abby, 1827-1849 -- Portraits. |
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Women. |
