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Lamar, Mary Hill, 1725-1799.
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Contributor
P. S. Duval & Co., lithographer.
Newsam, Albert, 1809-1854, lithographer.
Title
Lamar, Mary Hill, 1725-1799.
Alternate title
Mary Lamar / on stone by A. Newsam ; P.S. Duval & Co. lith. Phil’a.
Publisher
Philadelphia : [s.n.]
Date
[1854?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph ; 13.2 x 8.4 cm.
Description
Bust-length portrait of Mrs. Lamar, wearing a beaded sautoir over her left shoulder.
Notes
In Smith, John Jay, ed. Letters of Doctor Richard Hill and his children (Philadelphia, 1854), plate preceding p. 45.
Mrs. Lamar was the second daughter of physician Richard Hill and of prominent Quaker lineage, belonging to the Hill, Lloyd, and Moore families of Philadelphia.
“Mary married Thomas Lamar, and had no child, and I know little of her character or her history farther than that she was a woman of the world, fond of high life, &c., and what the letters reveal.”--P. xvii.
Genre
Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Lithographs -- 1850-1859.
Subject
Lamar, Mary Hill, 1725-1799 -- Portraits.
Women.
Quaker women.
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Portraits of American Women
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