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Portrait #156
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| Subject/Title: | Purcell, Sarah Wood |
| Artist: | Benbridge, Hetty (attrib.) |
| Date Created: | ca. 1773-1775 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 7 x 6 |
| Image Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.25 |
| Materials/Media: | watercolor on ivory |
| Date Documented: | 7/13/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Oval three-quarters bust-length miniature left of young woman wearing a blue dress. Her brown hair is somewhat loosely swept up and back. The background is light blue. The work is in a locket-type hinged frame, mounted open within a wooden frame with a cream backing. |
| History: | A matching miniature of her husband, Rev. Henry Purcell, is in the Gibbs Museum in Charleston, SC. |
| Notes: | Subject's husband was rector of St. Michael's in Charleston, SC in 1783. The owner is the great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of the subject. |
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