Details
Contributor Rowse, Samuel Worcester, 1822-1901, engraver.
Title Kimberly, Miss, b. 1818.
Alternate title Miss E. Kimberly, as a Shakespearian reader.
Publisher [Boston? : s.n.]
Date [1852?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 19.1 x 14 cm.
Description Three-quarter length portrait of Miss Kimberly, wearing earrings, a bracelet, and a cross necklace with a flower in her hair.
Notes In Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 2, no. 23 (Boston, June 5, 1852), p. 361. "The likeness we give herewith is by our artist, Mr Rowse".
The actress, also known as Sophia Elizabeth Munson Roberts, adopted Miss Kimberly as her stage name.
"'You will see by the literature I enclose that I am occupied in aiding in the control of the only insurance company in the world organized and conducted by women,-- myself being the originator of the project. I also conduct a family hotel comprising the block between 21ist and 22nd Sts. My life has been passed in all absorbing labor, mental and physical.' We learn from Mrs. Harriet Bradley Jackson that Sophia was formerly an actress became quite a performer and went all round. She was known in the profession as Miss Kimberly which was her mother's maiden name. Another adds that she was a Shakespearean reader. Her husband was an actor also. After she left the stage she practiced medicine."--Munson, M.A. 1637-1887 The Munson record, v. 2 (New Haven, 1896), p. 963.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Kimberly, Miss, b. 1818 -- Portraits.
Actresses.
Women.
Is part of Portraits of American Women
Has format TMP.objres.7422.jpg