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Portrait #128
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| Subject/Title: | Maury, Abraham |
| Artist: | Earl, Ralph E. W. |
| Date Created: | ca. 1825 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 36 x 31 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29.5 x 21 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 7/15/2003 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Waist-length three-quarter right profile of a heavy-set man wearing a dark jacket with large lapels and a white shirt with a white bow tie. He has sideburns to the bottom of his ears, ruddy cheeks, and a slight double chin. His straight hair appears to be combed over to his left to minimize a receding hairline. |
| History: | Cumberland Art Conservation Center did restoration in 1988-89. |
| Notes: | Sitter was born in 1766 and died in 1825. He was the founder of Franklin, TN and the man for whom Maury County is named. More documentation in the file.
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