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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
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| Subject/Title: | McAwly, Mrs. Temora (?) | |
| Artist: | Marra, John | |
| Date Created: | 1804 | |
| Owner/Location: | Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN |
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| Frame Dimensions: | NA | |
| Image Dimensions: | 2 3/8" diameter | |
| Materials/Media: | watercolor on ivory | |
| Date Documented: | 2/22/2004 | |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Frame is original gold plated on copper with fully glassed back enclosing a strand of brown hair over silk. It has a very unusual pasteboard case with embossed and applied decoration. On the case is written in contemporary ink "Mrs McAwly / Temora" Young woman with light brown curls pasted to her forhead and piled atop her head. She is wearing a simple white v-neck collarless dress, pinned at the nadir of the v-line. Her eyes are large and blue. |
| History: | Painted in New York City. Exhibited Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000 Illus. Huntsville catalog. |
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