| Contributor |
Gardner, Daniel, 1750-1805, artist. |
| Title |
[Copy portrait of Mrs. Benedict Arnold and child] [graphic] |
| Publisher |
United States 1850 |
| Date |
ca. 1850 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; sixth plate. |
| Description |
Portrait of a painting of a seated Arnold in a dress with a large bow at the waist with her arm around a young child who leans
into her lap. Daniel Gardner painted the portrait of Margaret Shippen Arnold with either her son Edward or daughter Sophia
in the 1780s.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Pad: Purple velvet. |
|
Mat: Oval. |
|
Case: Leather. Flower vase motif design on recto was engraved by Anthony C. Paquet and illustrated as plate 146 in Floyd and
Marion Rinhart's American miniature case art (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co.), 1969. Geometric design on verso.
|
| Subject |
Arnold, Margaret Shippen, 1760-1804 -- Portraits. |
| Genre |
Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850. |
|
Photograph cases -- 1840-1850. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - Unidentified photo.-Identified sitter - Arnold [P.2009.10.1] |
| Accession number |
P.2009.10.1 |
