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Portrait #153
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| Subject/Title: | Cheney, Sarah Anne Catherine Lawrence Morgan |
| Artist: | Dodge, John Wood |
| Date Created: | 1852 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 2.25 x 1.75 |
| Image Dimensions: | 2 x 1.5 |
| Materials/Media: | watercolor on ivory |
| Date Documented: | 5/5/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Oval miniature nearly frontal of a young woman in a white dress with a thin overlayer up to the neck. Her black straight hair is parted in the middle and pulled up and back. She is wearing a pair of earrings that are small hoops of silver. The background is a warm brown. |
| History: | Painted posthumously from a carte-de-visite photograph. |
| Notes: | Subject was born 11/1821 and died 9/15/1850. She married Charles John Cheney in Nashville, Tennessee 12/12/1839 and moved to Cheneyville, Louisiana. She died after the birth of their fifth daughter, Lizzie Cheney. More documentation in the file.
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