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Portrait
#1277
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Subject/Title:
| Harris, Sallie Wiles King |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date Created: | 1851-55 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 37 x 32 |
| Image Dimensions: | 25 x 21 Oval |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on paper board |
| Date Documented: |
26 April 2008 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | The brown-eyed native of Burkesville, KY is portrayed with raven hair scalloped at her cheek and skimming the delicate lace collar affixed with a cerulean velvet bow. |
| History of Work: | The painting is one of a pair (see Josiah Harris). The portrait was passed down through Josiah Harris' descendants to the present owner; the subject was the owner's great-great paternal grandmother. |
| Notes: | Subject was born 20 November 1819 and died 27 January 1876. She is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Franklin, KY. Mentioned in History of Kentucky by W. H. Perrin, p. 667.
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