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Elizabeth Hastings Henshaw
Elizabeth Hastings Henshaw
Artist (1772 - 1848)

Elizabeth Hastings Henshaw

Date1839
DimensionsSight: 18 3/8 × 13 3/16 in. (46.7 × 33.5 cm)
Object numberN0259.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
BibliographyD'Ambrosio, Paul S. and Charlotte M. Emans, "Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, NY: NYSHA, 1987: 33-35, and illustration number 10 on page 33.

Jones, Agnes Halsey and Louis C., "New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic", NYSHA, 1960: 24-25, illustration number 52A and 52B.

Robin Jaffe Frank, Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (exh. cat. CT: Yale University Press, 2000).

Jack Larkin, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, and David Jaffee, Meet Your Neighbors: New England Portraits, Painters, and Society 1790-1850 (exh. cat. Old Sturbridge Village, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992), pp. 61, figs.18-19; pp.74-75, 84-85, 100-101, 111, 119.

Robert M Doty, By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art (exh. cat. New Hampshire: University of New England Press, 1989).

Jean Lipman, Flowering of American Folk Art, (New York: Viking Press, in cooperation with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974).

Peter H. Tillou and Paul Rovetti, Nineteenth century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage (The William Benton Museum of Art, 1973), p.165.

Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester, Primitive Painters in America, 1750-1950 (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1950), p.31-38.
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