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Portrait #1243
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Subject/Title:
| Dickey, Susan Eleanor Poston |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | 1892 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 31 x 28 |
| Image Dimensions: | 11 x 19 |
| Materials/Media: | Charcoal on paper |
| Date Documented: | 20 April 2008 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Subject is facing nearly left profile and looking in that direction. Her light brown hair is pulled back behind her visible left ear, and possibly arranged in a loose bun at her neck. Her long, leg-of mutton-sleeved dress is ruffled white lace at the shoulders with an elaborate embroided high neckline and echoing embroidery down what is visible of the bodice. |
| History of Work: | Portrait of owner's maternal grandmother, probably made in Houston, TX. |
| Notes: | Subject was born in 1872, married in 1892 in Houston, TX, and died September 21, 1934 in Nashville, TN. She is buired in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Nashville, TN.
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