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Three-quarter length portrait of Sarah Mitchell Sayward, facing left; background not filled in; lace on sleeves not finished; subject wearing pink dress, white apron and kerchief.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Portrait
Inscriptions and markings in chalk on top of stretcher; also incized; also some indecipherable marks in pencil; stars scratched and chalked down right side of stretcher; chalk ""O"" on right side of frame.
Sayward, Sarah Mitchell, 1718-1775
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
57 1/2 x 46 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.228
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