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Datec. 1815
DimensionsSight: 11 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (29.2 × 24.1 cm)
Object numberN0262.1958
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThe inscription on the back of the piece reads:
"This picture first belonged to Sally Mallory, then to her daughter Emeline Mallory Utley, then to her daughter Mary Ann Utley Skeele, then to her daughter Lillei (?) Skeele Barnes, then to her daughter Harriett Eva Barnes Eastwood, then to her daughter Dorothy Eastwood who is to have this picture when Irving Mills is through with it. Sally Mallory was Irving's great great grandmother and she had no picture when first married and it always hung by the fire place in her little log cabin home. If Dorothy Eastwood should not be living it should go to Robert Barnes."
Exhibition History“Liberties with Liberty,” Craft and Folk Art Museum (Museum of American Folk Art), New York, NY June 1, 1987 – August 9, 1987; Detroit History Museum, Detroit, MI, February 10, 1987 – April 26, 1987; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, November 23, 1986 – January 25, 1987; Museum of American Folk Art, February 25, 1986 – May 18, 1986.
BibliographyNancy Jo Fox, Liberties With Liberty: The Fascinating History of America's Proudest Symbol. (New York: E.P. Dutton in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, [1986]): cat. no. 17.
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