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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
| Portrait #624 >  |
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| Subject/Title: | Overton, Judge John | |
| Artist: | Unknown | |
| Date Created: | 1880-1900 | |
| Owner/Location: | Travellers Rest Plantation & Museum 636 Farrell Parkway Nashville, Tennessee 37220 |
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| Frame Dimensions: | 36 x 31 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 30.25 x 25 | |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas | |
| Date Documented: | 12/10/2004 | |
| Condition: | Fair |
| Description: | Three-quarters right profile of a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and tie and a black coat. His silvery hair is parted on his right and his sideburns come to just below his ear. The background is a red drape and books are to his left. |
| History: | |
| Notes: | Reproduction of a ca. 1820 portrait by Washington Cooper. Donated to Travellers Rest by Con Overton Thompson Ball, great great granddaughter of Judge Overton, in 1978. |