Details
Contributor Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860, artist.
Mote, William Henry, engraver.
Title Escars, Mary.
Alternate title Mary Escars / A.E. Chalon, R.A. ; M.H. Mote.
Publisher [Hartford? : s.n.]
Date [1847?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 19.3 x 11.7 cm.
Description Three-quarter portrait of Miss Escars, seated holding handkerchief and spray of flowers in her lap.
Notes In The American book of beauty, or, Token of friendship (Hartford, 1847?), plate following p. [40].
Another portrait appears in: Family circle, and parlor annual, 1849 (New York, 1848), plate following p. 148.
Fictitious person? Original sitter identified as the English photographer Catherine Curtis Verschoyle; cf. Heath's Book of beauty, 1839; and Taylor & Schaaf. Impressed by light: British photographs from paper negatives, 1840–1860 (2007).
Genre Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Subject Escars, Mary -- Portraits.
Women.
Fictitious characters.
Verschoyle, Catherine Curtis, 1802-1882 -- Portraits.