National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #618
Subject/Title: Overton, Mrs. Mary McConnell White May
Artist:Unknown
Date Created:1835-1840
Owner/Location:Travellers Rest Plantation & Museum
636 Farrell Parkway
Nashville, Tennessee 37220
Frame Dimensions:36 x 29
Image Dimensions:30 x 25
Materials/Media:oil on canvas
Date Documented:12/10/2004
Condition:Fair
Description:Older woman seated in a red chair is dress in a widow's costume of black dress, large gray collar, gray bonnet that is heavily ruffled around her face and tied under the chin with a black bow. Her hair is parted in the middle.
History:Reproduction of a ca. 1830 portrait by Ralph E.W. Earl.
Notes:Donated to Travellers Rest by Mrs. Robert H. Jordan (Mary Hamilton Thompson Orr) and Mrs. John H. Davis (Harriet Orr) in 1956. Both were great-great granddaughters of the subject.

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